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Weekly Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1841), 1847-06-09

Weekly Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1841), 1847-06-09 page 1

, : - ' : ' " WEI OH 0 STATE 0 RNAL VOLUME XXXVII. COLUMBUS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1847. NUMBER 41. PUlll.lSHI',1) KVIiKY WKDNKSPAY MOUNINCJ, Y WILLIAM B. Til HALL. Ollico in the Journal Building, onth-eimt corner of Ilil street and Suar alley. T K RMS: Timrr TVw.r.Atts pt.h annum, which mav bodisrlis.rffcil by ttm payment of Two fioi.l.Aits in advance, and frcu of pontage, or nf per cent.iire. to Agents or Collectors. The Journal is also published daily during llie session of trio Lou 1 1" latum, ami thrice ti wens, tun nimainuer oi mid jmr for $f ; ami throe times a wtok, yearly, fur jf I. TIILMSDAY EVENING, Juno 3, IN?. Kitturnl Curiosity. Mr. Kei.looo called at our sanctum tliii morning, with a pair of curious young aniittaU, for which in1 has not been able to find a name or classification. They were found in tho broom-corn field of Messrs. Eaton, on t)ie Scioto bottom, opposite tho city and arc about Iho size of a half-grown rat, with Wail and tn.il like a rnbit, fur like a mole, foot like a ground-hog, bind leg Bonn.' thing like a kangaroo, mid apparently four or five dayi old. He liai exhibited I linn f) sevi ral naturalists, but none can tell to what genua the youngsters belong. Strnwherriea The Amende. A few days since wt noticed some strawberries, a specimen of which had lt'in left at our oilice by .Mr. Burr, some of which measuring t!J inches in circumference." This we regarded a favorable, and in making the statement did nntVWn doing injustice to .Mr. HuKii. But he hit convinced u that we did so, by leaving with us some specimen nearly twice as large as those! and these ho says, aro not a fnir specimen of what he will show, in a few days ! Tin1 varieties now shown, are Burr's New Pmo Burr's Columbua Ilurr'i Mammoth Burr's Seedling and a new variety not named. I.ncoloco Prctcnrun Short-llvcil Deceptions, Tho history of Locol'ocn prediction and deceptions for the last six or eight yeara in this country, and especially in Ohio, would present a curious spectacle. Ju matters of political difference, neither party is apt to he so absolutely and entirely wrong hut that a p. pmrantti can be preserved for a considerable period, and time given to Hlide olf unobserved, upoti other questions, without a very complete exposure. It is ; indeed true that exposure must sooner or later follow error; but exposure tun often depends upon dncu-nientary evidence and history, which are attentively examined but by the few, who are observant and careful, while the great mans suffer their teachings to past unheeded. Too much time usually transpires in political matters, between the errors and their results, to allow the matter to remain entirely fresh in the re collection of the pcuplc. Such we say it usually the case but such has not been the case with the recent career of the Lucofoco party. We have heretofore had occasion, recently, to allude to the singular fatality, and enormous losses accompanying the process of Lucofoco " Dink Reform." It was a series of failures, and of abortive expori- Neiv liuolts. Tim lU.nnvr.HiK ok tub Colonial anii Revolu TioNAitv Timks. Wiik sketches of early Jimeriean Statesmen anil Patriots. Two orations, delivered before the New England Society of Cincinnati, by Rev. 12. L. Mauoon, and published by request of the Society. Eur sale at tho B ink Store of Mr. Hcitonns. Famiuau Lksso.is on Puvsiolouv, Designed fir tho u. of Children and Yonth in Schools and Families. By Mrs. L. N.Fowi.t.k. Illustrated by numerousen. graving!. New York, J8-17 pp ii'i. For sale by Blain & Ackermnn. The Tkktii, Their structure, Diseases, and Trent' ment. By John Bukijki.l, Dentist. New York, 1647 pp.?-'. For sale by Blain & Aekennaii. " Coroner's Inquest. An inquest was held over the bodies of two young men, supposed to bo about twenty one years of age, near Gruveport in this county; they had only been at the Grove a few days, employed by A. M. Burgis in a brick.yard as laborers. Their" clothing was chiefly country-made linsy or jeans, they was about an ordinary size, freckled, with rallier sandy hair. They told Mr. Burgis they came from Marion county, and on a memorandum book found in their pocket the names of Adam Wolf mid Benjamin Nichols was found, also on a pocket Testament in their clothes the name of Adam Wolf was found. It wus suppos. ed they had went in to bathe, and not being acquainted Willi the water, they gut in where they could not swim. For any further information required by the friends nf the deceased address the undersigned or W, II. Rarey at Groveport. H. HOWARD, Coroner. Columbus June 3d, 1H 17. me ii in, limit wimij cut n uuii'i in (iiin:n viifTi:rnniuii, so i that even Locot'oeu hardihood could scarcely face the ,,n"cv ''' t' um.U deplorable condition. Tho Fciitn of Whiskery." " Whiugry it as, during its ascendancy in our Stale Legislature, dunk hotnimj which can permanently recommend its principles to popular favor." Ho says the tiolon of the Chill irothe .Uhertiser ; and, so far as the partial pages of his paper evince, the declaration is true. But acts tell a very different story. Let us examine them. WiuooKuv devised the system of Interna! Improvement which has converted the wilderness of Ohio into productive fields. WiMofiKitf made more miles of canals and turnpikes with three millions of dollars, than Lneotbcoiffin. und its party blood-siiekerH, did wilhyrzvctt millions. WiuuoKiiv, on three dilf. reiit occasions, when Lo. cofucoism had pushed the State to the verge of Rum, stepped into the Legislature in time to save the Com. inoiiweallli irom Itepudiation and perman'eut Disgrace. WiiKiornr found tlio Stale Revenue insutlicieiit to meet the interest on the public debt, created by Loco-focoisui, and the Tax Law micmial und iuiimieiiL uud devised and put in operation n Revenue system which meeis aiuiohi universal approval, enables the Stale to more than fulfill herenvuyemimfs, and is eliciting from the wine and good, in other Stales, such en comiums as swell the heart of every Ohioan with bon- t pride. Wnimmiv found a corrupt pre at tu Caoilal. bntlctiing on the patronage of tint Stale, and reform ed we entire system ot I'ublic rriiitnig, thus securing a saving to the Treasury of many thousands per annum. WiiMifiKiir found the National Road, from Wheel ing to Indiana, infested with a set of Locul'oco iinrpies in tin shape i.f StiperinteuJanti,' who had sqoan. ilered the puMic I'iukIh, and brought both road and It- mil- people and ask for further coniidei.ee. The peopl,. ,,n,,'u ,mi Svivu rastais, ami put in f , . . honest men. havmg placed the legat.ve power 11. the hands of Wum.iiu ha restored to the State a good conver. tho Whigs, they net about their Imsim-Hs in earnest, I tihle paper currency, and driven beyi.ud our borders and brought forth their measures. The Locofocos 1 the red-d g and wild eat sliin-plmters introduced tin had exhausted all their expedients, and had failed I ,lrr patronage of the Loe.of..co deatructives, who, No one of their expedients lived long enough to entitle its death lo the observance of funeral obsequies. They had nothing further to propose and consequently based their claims to further indulgence, not so much upon tkrir oim vttrits, as upon the errors which thnj imputrd to the Whigs ! They had succeeded iu break-; ing up most of the old banks, and hoping to be able to break up the new ones, claimed some indulgence at: the hinds of the people on that account. But the people, not having any great desire to see any more lanks broken, or to have another shin-plaster l.ocot'o-co era follow so soon upon he heels of the last one, ' respectfully declined the overture. j With regard to the new tax law although a similar measure had been repeatedly recommended and urged by public functionaries of their own political stamp, and was obviously indir,pensable thnj nercrthtlrst ei-posed it ! A nd yet, their opposition was not grounded upon tin- idea of their having to propose any better plan of their own for public consideration. They fought as the Mexican are proposing now to light, in little organ ii-d squads of guerrillas. They hung out no banner and recognised no common principle of objection, except the principle if fault finding and earils Did they find any where in the law, a passage susceptible of a doubtful or wrong construction, a hundred Locofocu editorials and Hpeeches were hung upon it, like Weathersfield onions upon a string. Did they see something like a shadow, any where in the law they let themselves down upon it, each hanging to the assertions of the other, like the Wclchuien celebrated in tradition, who, supposing they had discovered a green cheese in the river, let themselves down by each others' heels, to tub up the reflected intake ol the moon They were is it to blame for not telling what they wanted for clearty they did not know exactly what they were driving at themselves. They wanted to find fault so far they uudersltod them-elves ; and so far only could they make others understand them. Their prominent notion was, that banks were not milVtcieully taxed. They pretended to believe that the banks were required to piy less taxes lh:in their proportion. It was in vain tint the matter was demonstrated over and over again, that bank stock would pay heavier taxes thin any other kind of property They would not see it. They were blind as owls; and like that delightful kind of bird, kept un a dolorous hooting. They did not believe thnj knew', Martyrdom could not shake their faith tire could not melt it out of them. And a stranger, listening for the fimt time to one of their speeches, or reading one ol their editorials, would have supposed their political creed to consist of '.wo items : 1st. That the hanks were not nalficiently laied. lid. That the great end and aim of man in tins his earthly pilgrimage, were to take core that bank slock and other properly should he taxed exactly alike. These fundamental and doctrinal notions they spoke and sung, and set forth in wood cuts. The no were the test of " Democracy " and were worn as badges in the hats of LMilors, stump orators, and such other like people -tear her And these, like the rest of their pretensions, were false. Whether they really knew the i il to be falsi', we do not undertake to say ; hut they might have known tliem to be so, had they eared to know any thing about the matter. But the tune lias now come when trtry body will know them to be false. Mr. Auditor IVornls u his last annual report, (page 11,) after giving a statistical table, phoning the amount of taxes paid by the new hanks, says; " It u thus shown th-t the indru ndent ll.tnhs nnd the branch's of ke state bunk, pay an artrage of eight mills an ihr dol'ar on tkrir capital." If we can now ascertain how much tax other property payr, we rhall have the whole reckoning tn a nut shell. The Auditor says, on the same page of hts report: " The total taxes of the year far mil purposes, trill not tiered six mills on the dollar." In the same n tc i... ..... . a "i, f r.,t. i..r ' rida """""" .."-j.""'" . ..,,,. till pwposrs, irill not tsmd (hire milts on tki dtdlar,'' t) page ID, lie says:1' It is probable that application will he made by the hank, to have their capital stork placed upon the grand list, and taxed, for State pur poses, an amount equal to the avernge tax paid upon other pruHrty. If the people of the State are disposed to rtliere the banks from the payment of the lax now mscskti) upon Ihctii under the act to incorporate the Slate Bank of Ohio and other banking companies, it may lie well to consider this proposition favorably. But if the Banks, in consideration of the privileges which they enjoy ought to pay n gnater tor upon their stork than is Icricd on other procrty of equal value, they should not bt released Jrom thr rontroctt under which thry trill haretopay a uii.at;htax than will. K LKVIMI rpON THK NtorMUV UV IMHVIDl'AI.." with their delusive cry of "hard money," and their deceptive theory of" low wuges," had well nigh bank, rnpled the citizens. These are some of the feats of ' Whicruery," performed "during it ascendancy in our Stale Leislu-ture." If these thinif.H are nothing," we should like to have a recital of what Locofoeoism has accomplish, ed, and compare act for act. Let us hear you Chtl-luothe Gazette. Iowa. Thomas Mcknight, of Dubuque, it announced as the Roiioli and Ready" candidate for CmigrcH, in that district. The election takes place next August. The Loco Foe os have nominated Wm. Thompson, of Henry, as their candidate for Congress, iu the first district. Drlnxian Smith, as he used to be called under J'din Tyler's administration, G. S. Bailey, of Van Buren, and Kinney, of Lee, were the op- posiu-f candidates. After the firft balloting, Kinney and Smith were withdrawn, ami Thompson was nominated, lie belons to the " Old Hunker" party of Iowa the Dodife clique and nil such, the nomination is regarded n a triumph for that faction. A Whig Convention i to be held at Fairfield, on the 'Jith of .May, to nominate a candidate tor Con-ifress, nnd aUo to or ran no un independent ticket for Commissioners on the Des Moines River grant St. Louis Hrp , May LI. The fnllnrinir paragraph from the Alexandria Gazette is appropriate and pointed: " It continues to be believed by many, that there was mh UHihrttanaing ot some sort or other between Mr folk and his trieml Santa Anna, that the latter was to grant us a pence, at some lime or on some contingency, not understood, or explained. The se ries ol iieieats h( has met with, end his consequent loas of p iwer nnd inllui-uee, hive deprived him of the means of fulfilling hii agreement. Where Mr. Polk i to find another traitur, with whom to make a like bargain, ia a puzililig question. We hope the Admin istration will not condemn (ten. lavmrtor having failed to give Htnbt Anna the 'opportunity ' sought for at Bti'Oia Vista, nnd chart upon his oloitiuacy in refminir to be trhipprd the responsibility of a continu ance o the war. In the mean time it would be irrat- ifvuiir to the p'iMic curiosity to know ichat has Income of the three milium,'" imA The W hi if of Indiana nr rink in ir pro- piration lor a vtif iroin contest atihe Anusielcction. As lar as they hive made their nominations they have lelected excellent men. That there will lie a irain in Congressmen wo have no doubt. In the Inst dm ires we h id but two we cannot do worse next time, but, on the (vmtrarr, will he aluenl certain to do much belter. We have i'ailh that one-half the Del. '-ration will be Whig next tune. In reply to numerous enquiries, we may state that it is m i true that the L'teoiltci of Z.iuesv'dlc are trying to raise a company of volunteers. On the contrary, tliy hav'nl the slimiest idea of it. The " Democratic" pirty lose too iniiiy men fr.un other causes, to permit any valuable live In he jeopardized iu the service of the country. '.unrsrille Courier. Iliri.KV IWxk The stock necessary for commencing operation upon, ($IOO,ihhi) hi tins city, is about all suhncrihcd, and we nro requested to stale, that the bonk Will he closed the last of next week ; therefore, thotie wishing 1 cure stock, would do well to subscribe immediately. The subscription books are at the stores of Messrs. .McMillan A Heynolds. Since the above was in Ivpe we h ive been informed that the stock for the bank has nit been tnken, and the stuck holders are requested n meet on Wednesday next, the 'id of June, at 1 o'clock, for the organiialion of the hanking company. HipUy Hie. Tin: Hi; ovFiu it. The pmnpect in (hi region as far as our observation ha extended, tor fruit of all kind, is exceedingly favorable. Pencil and plum trees, especially, we never snw more thickly set with the yotinir Iruit. Late rnms, aim, have h.id a very favorable e fleet on vegeiiilum gem-rally. W heat is improving iu npHnrancet and grass i coming on finely .Marion l.agle. Productions ol the- I'uited Ntnte. The Patent Oilice Bepirt furnishes the following important iuorui:itin ; Wheal, oats, rye, Indian corn, potatoes, hay and tobacco are raised in every State and Territory iu the Inion. Barley raised in nil except Louisiana. Buckwheat raised in nil except Louisiana and Flo- York, New Jersey. IVnnsvlva- higau, Ohio and Wisconsin do not raise cot- Mi PifAvifto a lUmiKn ! John James, a Chillicothc Barber, was lined $1,1 '.J 4 for shaving on Sunday last and publishes the Mayor's receipt iu the newspaper, as hi "excuse for notifying his customers that it will not do for him hereafter to shave on Sundays." The Receiver ol Public Money at Chicago lately transported to St. Louis $:tril ,iih) in specie, at an expense tu tho Treasury of j:i,i)UU. ma, ton. The State lha do not raise cotton, together with Maryland, Delaware mid Indiana, do not ruse rice. Kvery State and Territory except Iowa, rnU-s silk. Lvcry Slate except Delaware makes suar. New Yotk raises the most barley, vix: l.'J.'-i-'J bushels. New York raises the most pntutoc, vix : i2J,,,)..V;t huihels New York raises the most hay, vix 4,"!-VWIi tons, Ohio raises the must wheal, via: ltl,7-lbl7Ci buih- the most rye, vim: e'JJtC Pennsylvania raise bushels. Pennsylvania raises the most buckwheat, via:(,--111-, .'.nil bushels. Tennessee raises tho most corn, via : Ii7,7;t,-1 17 bushels. Virginia rniies the most flax and hemp, vii: III,-7',M pound. Kentucky raises the moat tobacco, vix: ?'-2,:WJ,r43 pound, Georgia raises the most cotton, vix: 1 1,17."), P-j'J pon ml. South Carolina raises the most rice, vii ; Gti.H.ilm? pounds. Cioaks. The amount smoked yenrtv in the V. S would rducalc 00,1)00 youth at sVJOO each. (10,000,-(MO in smoke ! LATCH MIO.n THIS 1IKAZOS. Humored Orient of Col. Voniiihnn Court Martial vp- on (Jen. La at ami Cut. HoipIc.3 The Proceedings and luidinir vt the Court Jeics from Dumnga Preparations for the Dvparture of (Jen. CadwuluUcr 's lamina ml Jur kaa Cruz, $-c. i,-o Tim U. S. steamship Trumbull, Cant. Stntsbury. arrived at New Orleans on the ;WJ ult., from the Bra. os, whence she sailed on the llKh, ult. The following passengers came over on the Trumbull: Capl. A. B. LansiiiT, Capt. K Webster nnd servant, and Cupt. Crowimltield, Massachusetts Volunteers ; Capt. Claiborne, Lieut. Frost, Father McKlroy, nnd thirty-nine deck pasdeugers, iiiohIIv discharged volunteers. Capt. Lansing, Webster nnd Crowingsliield return to the States for a short tune for the benefit of their health. 0.mle the" most important intelligence by this arrival concerns the safety of Col. Doniphan's command, which is thus leported by a correspondent of the Picayune, under dale of Monterey, May Kd: "There is a report here, derived from pretty good authority, from Col. Doniphan's force, and of a very unwelcome character. Il is derived from an attache of tho army nt Silenas, a small town wilhin about forty miles of this place, and lie obtained the information from Mexicans who just nrnved. It is to the cli'ect that Col. Doniphan s force had been attacked at a pass nailed Sierra Gordon, about half way between Saltillo nnd Chihuahua, by a Mexican force from Durango under Gen. Riez of whom 1 never recollect ot hearing before nnd that Col. I), had been defeated with severe loss, and all his artillery captured. There may be some truth in this report, as the Colonel was eu route to join Gen. Wool's command at Saltillo, " The Picayune, in reference to this letter remarks: We are L'-eatly in hopes that this will prove to be a mere Mcxicnn rumor, and we are encouraged i it this hopo by the fact that the Picket Guard, published at Saltillo on the Urd. makes no mention of the rumor, and anticipates the speedy arrival of Col. Doniphan and his command at that place. By (his nrrival we learn that Brig. Gen. Cad wain-dor is to forthwith lo proceed with his command (ex. cepting the dragoons,) now encamped at Palo Alto lo vera Lruz to remtorce tjeneral Scott. The transports were being prepared at tho Brazus when the Trumbull left At last accounts the most intense curinsitv was felt at Monterey nnd Saltillo to learn news of Gen. Scott movements 1 hey had not then heard ol the victory of'Cerro Gordo, lint had innumerable false rumors of operations on the Vera Cruz road to Mexico. The Picket Guard of Monterey contain tho re sult of a court mtirtial in the eases of Gen. Lane and Col. Bowles, in connection with the retreat of the ltd Indiana Regiment, nt the battle of Buetm Vista. In Slavory in the, ratnnd in tho Future Politicul 11 istory. Hon. Jons W. Tavi.oh, well remembered by ninny of our older citizens as a leading democrat of this Stale prior to and during the last war, eminent in our Legislature, and afterwards in Congress, retired from nclive life several years ago, having been struck with a paralysis while a member of our State Senate from the llh District. He now of lives in retirement at Cleveland, Ohio, whence the following letter was recently transmitted by him to Hon. Chahi.es Hudson, and by the latter communicated to the Boston Alias. It will be iouud deeply interesting in its reminiscences, and sound iu its position. Read and heed ! Ci.kvki.ami, Ohio, May lf, 1817. Ho, CllAitt.KS Huiisoa. Dear .Sir : Continued infirmity has delayed thanks for the considerate kindness which has relieved my solitude, by your speech on the y.MIJO.OOU bill, read and re-read with entire approbation and pleasure. In the loth and Kith Con-giesses, when my efforts to arrest Slavery in Missouri and Arkansas were d feated by dough faces, the result was deeply deplored ; but nonu then anticipated the present fearful declension, when the heart's blood of freemen is poured out in foreign lands, to enlarge nnd perpetuate human bondage. The axiom you uu-nounce, "A conquering republic is a political solecism," lays at the foundation of our Union. Its dia-regard must lead to dissolution. We have gone far in u downward course, when Congress, instead of impeaching and removing a President, who wantonly usurps it prerogatives of making war, tamely assumes the war, with u lie on its front, and authorizes its prosecution for objects too base to he avowed. The dough faces of the tilth Congress are justly chnrga-ble with the triumph of Slavery; for although Mr. Scott, the delegate of M;0')uri, and the slave owners in Koniiicliy, opposed the restriction ngninst Slavery, yet, after it passed the House of Representatives, they implored their friends to acquiesce, which Would have been the peaceful result, had not Slavery found Senator from free States, then the majority, false to their constituents. From thii fittal beginning, the course of Freedom has bei n downward. The attempt to make Missouri a free State has been falsely attributed lo unworthy ambition. Bear with me, while 1 relate some fads not generally known of its origin. One day, early in February, Gen. James Tall- madge, then of Poiighkeepste, in Congress from Dutchess County, was sitting with me in the room of the Committee on Elections, of which I was Chairman. We discoursed of the petition of Missouri to become a State, then before the I louse, of its noble rivers, fertile soil, and position by the side of the Northwest Territory, und lo which would, doubtless, have been applied the free ordinance of I7r7, confirmed by the first Congress, had Missouri then beluiii'edto the Union. Tliu rich fruits of that ordinance were brought fur- the case of Gen. Lane, ihu following was the opinion ward. We both felt the solemn duty of applying its )1 the court : Otiinion. The court nre of opinion that duniin the whole period of Iho Wd and i:hl of February, 1817, Brig. Gen. Lane conducted himself ns a brave ami lallant utlicer, nnd that no censure nl (ached to litin lor the retreat of the 'Jd Beirimeiit of Indiana Volunteers. In the case of Col. Bowleti the court express their opinion in the following plain but emphatic language : U'unttin. Willi relereiiec to the lirst charee, the court is of opinion that dd. Bowie is ignorant of the duties o Colonel ; but the court would remark Ihat ill health, and absence on account of ill he illh, have in some decree prevented him from Mime; hiuiHelf for the duties of that otliee. The court is of opinion that nt the tiuio Colonel Bowleg yave the order " retreat," he was under the imprcrirfimi that the artillery had retreated, when iu fact the battery had none to nn advanced position under the orders of Gen. Lane, which orders had not been communicated to Cul. Bowles. And iu conclusion, the court find that throughout the enga reiiient, and llirDUirh the whole dav. Col. Bowie evinc. d no want of nersoinl eournire or bra very ; hut that he did manifest a wantof capacity and judgment ns a commander. 1 nu .Mataumras tluf av that Gen. Urrea Ins is sued n proclamation to the citizens of Cadareylo, very samilar iu one to that of Santa Anna. He calls upon the town for a contribution towards supporting the war, nnd also orders under arms all able-bodied males between the ace of Hi and 4.V Immediately after having issued this proclamation he set olf for the city of .Mexico. The same English Gentlemen from Duranjo. make the following report, which we copy from the Guard: un tliu route they saw lien. O.trcia Conde on his way to Durango, will) 1.7) men, having ns a prisoner Gen. Herreiha, who commanded at the battle of Sa cramento. He is accused of treason and of being fond of American gold. All the rest of (he troop Ii.nl dis persed lor their homes. Durango was in a irreat stale of alarm, dreading the nrrival uf (Jen. Wool, who was expected by them daily. Mr. James Magollm was a prisoner, with tie- city lor In prison limits, but well treated by the Mexican. Kvery thing was quiet in California, the whole country iu possession of the Americans, and a very great influx of families and settlers from Oregon. The Monterey Pioneer thinks that an advance upon Sail Luis is designed by Gen. Taylor, as unusual activity prevails in all the departments, nnd four trains, loaded with subsistence stores, have recently arrived at that place. Tim Matamorns Flag state that Romano Paz a notorious Mexican robber and murderer, was captured in the vicinity nf Old Reynosa, by dpt. Ileil, of the steamer Corvette, nnd brought down to that city, where he is now imprisoned. It is staled in the .Monterey Pioneer, upon the nil-lliority of a gentleman from San Luis Polosi, that but a few hundred elfective troop were in that city, and in n me nospunis were tilled with the sick and wounded, who were dying for wantof attention. A report reached there that Gen. Taylor wa. willuu three days' inarch of the city, which caused hundred of the inhabitant to ramos with their property. Tim Flag accompanies the following card with a warm tribute to the virtues and piety of the Rev. Mr. M - Kirov: A Cako. The undersigned, being about to return to the United Stales takes tins opportunity of expressing his gratitude to the citien of Matauinra, with whom he hid the pleasure nt an acquaintance, lor their marked kindness and attention on all occasions, and this without regard to religious opinion. To the oltircra of the nnny he acknowledge continuous acts of courtesy, during his sojourn Willi lliem the reco. lection nf which will ho cherished by huu through life, and will enable him to appreciate their noble deeds, accompanied, always, by Ira ltd still mure glorious the humane, kind, and truly Christian treatment of their vanquished enemy, whether ns prisoners of war or wounded on the batile-tield. My lerveut wishes nnd prayers, though ntisent from the nrmy, shall he elicited for lis members, and for a speed v nnd honorable pence, Jon M. MrKnmv, Chaplain U. S. Army. Matamorns, May II, IHI7. liiiter from Verm Cruz. The schooner Whig, Cnpt. Rayner, arrived at New Orleans on the Jlst mst. from Vera Cruz, having left there on the evening ol hitunlay, the loth mst. Lieut. A. J- Brock nnd thirty-three privates, being company F. of (he Tennessee cavalry, came passengers on lliu Whig. Verbally, wo lenrn, say the Picayune, that there had been no later nrrival from the army of Gen, Scott, From the Kagle of the loth inst., we lenrn that the II. S. sloop of war Germiutown, dipt. F. Buchanan arrived oil the Castle on the Llth ult . but sailed mediately fof Anton Lizardo, to await the orders of the Commodore. The U, S. steamer Spitfire, Lienl Com'g Lee, was lying nt Vera Crux awaiting des. paicncs uaiiy eaperieii iroin ine interior. The Kagle j of the opinion that Gen. Scott will remain nt Puebln until the begiuingof nuiuiim wit hunt marching upon the capital The Kagle gives a somewhat different version of the recent surprise and murder of dragoons at Sinla Fe, near the cilv, from that we have puhliahed. It " " inch. v.npi, ei np.iicu uy lint new mm law, HI CoiiPCljllellCO Walker was still in pursuit of the murderer, having j of hi master having attempted Intend him for sale to attacked one party, and tell four of them dend on the j a Southern market. AH that the coii,tnlmii nnd law '""'Id- gives the master he shall have; hut not content, ho The high- complain m good set terms of llie dull.' usurps, while lilking of equality, nnd linn actually won ties of Vera Crux and the excessive heat, which ! hy threats of disunion, political power una ui honied by threaten to liecome yet more intense. Nothing is the constitution. But what can I do Palsied from -ud of the health of the city. From the report of ihe head to foot, and loathing food, the coming battle inut proc Imgs of the city council wo perceive that our he foughl by yuu and your peers, after I gel Hip dis- countrymen have brought a good ileal of American ! charge fur which 1 anxiously look. This note is writ-energy to the task nf cleaning the city, providing a ; tew to suggest the expediency of making any use police, supporting school and ihe like. Before we ! deemed proper of Ihr fact recalled in my letter of l ist are in' "i m. r wyv u may uecome mmiiu, wiinoiu giving prominence in my humble name qui If nil umnvuvi- nu inuimy cujr, principles to the young giant, destined to tie the empire Slato of the West; we set lied the form of re. striction to bo moved, ho mild as to impair no vested right, and we indulged the hope that our brethren of uie Month, like their predecessors ol 17f7, would cheerfully co-operate Willi the great South we hud zealously supported the war of JM'-J, and considered its representative our political friends, cordially sup porting me uuiiiinisirauon oi mt. ilaUi.ion. Saturday, Feb. LI, the Missouri bill being reached, Gen. Tall-madge, as agreed, moved the restriction, after boundaries and other matter were settled. The hour being late, the House adjourned. Monday, Feb. I't, Gt-u. Tallmadge was tou ill to come to the IJnu, and I opened the debate, in a speech widely circulated. On another day, Gen. T. came iu and ably sustained Ihe restriction. The bill passed thus, to oli. The Senate, hy Ihe aid of dough-faces, struck out the restriction of Slavery. Kaeh House adhered, nnd Iho bill failed. During the next Congress, Ceil. Talt-madge was in the service of the State of New York, in another department. The duty of bringing forward and supporting the restriction devolved uu me. My speech on the occasion was fuller and more widely circulated. Aide supporters were not wnnlmir. The House aifaiu passed the bill restrictiii'r slavery. The dough-faces iu Ihe Senalo persevered iu misrepresenting the free States, some against positive inslruC' uoii, an ainiMiig commence, i he committee of conference reported the comproiiiMe, which slavery nod dougll-face enforced, against Hie vole of freedom's sou. On the parage of ihis compromise, Randolph said of these dtiwjhfae.es, as he called them, " we got all wo wanted ; had wo needed more, they were iu tl mrket." Slavery then triumphed in a victory which now it pretends deprived it of inherent rights north of liii deg ;t.) nun. November, If4',' I, Mr. Clay sent his resignation ns Speaker, nnd the contest of Freedom nnd Slavery was renewed in choice of a successor, which, alter ihree days' balloting fell on me. December I8',', Van Buren came Senator from New York, with fourteen New York Hui'ktails in the House, having, in opposition lo my effort, turned Clinton out of the nmn age ment of his own Canal, breathing slaughter to any one. who refused to cry, down with Clinton ! The day Congress met, seven ballots showed no election, though Ihrico I had a plurality, the seventh within four of a majority over the four oilier candidates. The Bucktailj voting for C. A. Rodney, of Delaware. The South steadily voting for a slaveholder. The Smith finding New York Bucklails resisted me, fearing nnolher ballot would elect, ell'ecled an adjournment to hold caucus. In caucus the Bucklails were beaten by the South, us at Baltimore since ; nnd Birbonr who like Polk was unexpected, and who had not received a vole in Iho House, was nominated, whether by tho two-third rule 1 know not; but on Hie twelfth ballot he was elected. Not a week passed before double Ihe number of New York Bucklails required to secure my cleclmn, vx. pressed regret at their being made the tool of "tho Northern man with Southern principles." But it was too late. 1 mention this only for Ihe lesson it should teach the divided North. The South on Slavery be-ing a Macedonian phalanx, (ten. Alex. Smithe lohl me I was rejected us Sjienker, only lor my opposition bt Slavery. Others said ihey voted against me with regret, but they could not go home, if they voted for me ngamst a Virginian. Gen. Mercer alone, of a Slave Stale, representing the distnol still Wlrg, give me publicly hi open ballot. May I hope tint, taught hy experience, the free States will insist on the true bounds of Texas on the Nueces, south of Red River, nnd thai no territory now Ireo shall ever be subject to Slavery. The spirit of slavery in nil time is at war with free labor. Il wn evinced in the uncnnslilulional vote of Texas lo repeal the Tariff of '41. If the North continues to submit to usurpation, it deserves to breed whiteslaves. On ihe verge of the grave I ahull not live to tee the evd, but my children must hear it; for SI ivory, like avarice, sharpens Us appetite by the food it devours. Some men have been republicans in spite of Slavery, hut its tendency u evil, only ev.l, and Ihat continually. The Fathers of the Revolution looked upon it as a temporary evil, to bo removed at the earliest day; a generation ha arisen striving lo make il eternal. In great infirmity 1 write from day to day lo a kindred spirit, 1 fear too long, but am truly Your friend, JOHN W. TAYLOR. In a private note, in reply to Mr. Hudson's request of leave to publish the above, Mr. Tay lor observe ; Whatever 1 wrote was written without a doubt of it truth ; and Incut, if useful to promote the cause of Freedom and Free Latur, should not be withheld. Grout efforts are making to magnify nnd consolidate tho political power of the slnvehotiJmg interest. 1 would rob it of no constitutional rihx In Mti, 1 rejoiced to find ilMtnoNt ardent friend in Congress, uniting cordially nnd elUciently with tin advocates uf free labor in establishing the American system. Ahs ! that this union was ever disturbed. There is much objection lo slavery in principle, but il practical hostility to free American labor makes it especially odmus in our Union. The vole of Texas against free labor, nt the expense of her own interest, more than anything else, ha mused me, on the brink of the grave, and recalled my struggles against the malignant uillnenee of slnvery in by-gone years. 1 nomine need my pro icMMooai ine uy rescuing inmi slavery a Iree man, Mi;tiioiut N. Y. CieoutiNi t:. The ease of tho Itev. John C. Green, which had been under consideration some day, was disposed of on Tuesday. The alleged ground of complaint was that Mr, Green, in hi character n pistor of tlm Centenary C hurch, Brooklyn, ha infringed the discipline by giving certificate and other recouimend itory paper lo Rev. J, N. Matlit, without due authority Mr. M. being, at Ihe time, a member of nnolher church and under notice of charges to he preferred. The charge ngninst Mr. Green were mainly supported by ihe Rev. Dr. Peck, and niter hearing Mr. Green in defence, (he conference ndopted the following resolution by a vote of ?!l to -Hi. Brother Green having been godly of iml admin istration and fd imprudence, niid of some degree of moral dereliction in the matter of brother Mallit ami 1 wnntcd funds to repel "Mexican invasion' the nti'.iirs nt ihe Ccnt.-nnrv Choral, .Iw.nl.l !.., .... I pended from the exercise of all Ins iiiiiiisterinl funo- lion until the next session ot this conlerenee." Mr. Green gave notice of his intention lo appeal lo tho General Conference. Massachusetts hus (illi miles of raihvnVt New York upwards of 800, Pennsylvania 7-l", Maryland :i;t',, Virginia South Carolina 'Mi, North Cnromnl7, Georgia fio'i, Alabama U'Mi, Ohio U1I. Michigan W'io. Florida 101. The lending fads are on record, and known to the ur. vivorsnf the f-thnml I'.Hh Congresses. 1 shrink from no needful responsibility, but from the appearance o seeking notoriety. Iu the war of .-1J, Bt,Kid liable for military service in support of a war, the justice of which I advocated in the New York Legislature and ih Congress, having voluntei red before my election, under the act for n detnchmenlof 100,001) men, inconsequence of the attack on Ihe Chesnpeuke." Tiik PosTAor Tax. The press nf this Slate, nf all parties, universally condemns the lute Post (.Mice Law. We may ndd that Ihe pmpltt concur. The law is del nounced ns a " tax on intelligence,'' mil some of the Lnc-d'oco piper have already homh d Ihe standard of " repeal," denouncing Cave Johnson for an ass the while. And we mny again add Ihe people concur. mil wny need I'oikiies gnimble i The President tilted funds to repel " Mexieiili fnvnsion' ' t m..l doubtless supposed that no lux could so little ntlect mmscii ami m irieud as one on " im-i;i.iiiukn(:c,,' Springfirld Kcpublir. MinsiiirMAN Ron ins The New York Herald snya that instructions have in fact been issued to Cioniuo. dure Perry, directing him, iu the event of Midshipman It otre ra being hnuged as a spy, ns was threatened, in deliance of nil law, to ha ig La Vegn to (he yaul arm if one of his fngaUs, willuu full view ut lliu city of Vera Crux, From Hie Pittsburgh (Jaiette. Review ol the Tweuty-NintU Congress. NO. II. TAXATION THE TARIFF. We have not room to discuss the tan If policy which his been remodelled by the late Congress. We are pointed lo tho prosperity of the country. But in it more prosperous now than it was under the tori If of itutf And would ihe commercial, or tho manufacturing, or the shipping interests be prosperous stall, but lor the extraordinary famine and scarcity in Europe? Why, the English tuition, from the British treasury, are at this moment paying our ship owners for sending to Great Britain the grateful chanties of our people, and is this a time tn draw favorable conclusions of a levenue measure which was established to overthrow an act long established, long tried, and proved to bo good? Be it remembered, too, that il was during a foreign war that the lantf act of 18 'i was destroyed, and most wantonly so. It was not only parly against interest, but party agaiuat principle, hiiI the deed was done not only iu defiance of Mr. Polk's pledges of protection when a candidate, but under circumstances that showed a willingness to sicrilice people, country, and the public good, merely to sustain the doctrines of those hostile alike to the labor, Ihe geuiui, und Ihe permanent welfaro of the nation. Thistarilfol 18-ltj was just eight days old when the President and his Secretary of Treasury, sent the one a message, and the other a report to Congress declaring ihat coal and iron should he additionally taxed, with Bugar, tea and cotl'ee 1 Upon Iho two last arli. cles, no duty had been imposed for fifteen or sixteen years, and they have become from Ihe constancy of their use and the dependence of the poor upon them, among the necssaries of life. Mr. Polk himself as a candidate for oilice, had denounced the tax upon them as a Whig measure, and he himself, backed by the Legislature and party of his Slate, had denounced any such tax as uiieuuuJ and unjust. His own Secretary of the Treasury, as a Senator also, had preferred, proposed, and defended a tax upon gold and silver plate ; and yet bulb are found, in the first place, the destroyers of a revenue law yielding a large income ; and iu the second place advocating an increase of duty upon Ihe comforts and necessaries of life ! Was this tax upon iron, and coal, and sugar, a political intrigue to win back the lost State of Pennsylvania to the Administration, and to soothe Louisiana, complaining id' had faith ' or was it an act to make Ihe pour, according to ihe Democratic creed, pay an increase of price equal to the increase uf duty pro nosed upon tea and coffee, nnd sugar, and coal, and iron, and other articles used by Ihe poor ? II the reduction of duty increased the amount of rcv-L'tme, according to another free trade theory, how hap pen it again that the Executive and Mr. Walker usk- d Congress tor ail iticreajcol revenue by an enhance- meat of duly. But this is not the marked feature of the subject. The "2'.Hh Congress have actually reduced the duty on luxuries in tfie tariff of 18-fli, while they have proposed, iu the year 1817, a high duty on the necessaries of life. On brandii and loirits distilled from ituoi. the duty had been reduced sixty-two per rent. Under the Whig tarilf of h ' according to the importations of I8.r. Ihe revenue derived from these articles was one million six hundred uud twenty-thrce thousand uonara, nun me reduced duty on brandy nnd spirits is $l:W,0'.)t) ! And yet lea and coffee are lo be taxed to make up the deficiency of a reduced duty nn rum, gm, brandy, whiskey, and other foreign alcholic liquors. Temperance men, hat think you of this." On play ing cards the duty had been reduced even-cights, and put in the ;t0 per cent, schedule. The duty on Visiting card had aNo been reduced nearly two-thirds. Mr. Stewart of Pennsylvania, in a recent speech says of the act of l.!4li, the duties are reduced "on crown and cul glass, chandeliers, &c , used by the rich, Is) t-) ;)0 per cent.; on pimento, cloves, cassia, dates, Arc, from uM to down to 4t) per cent.; on ready-made clothing, from .7) in ID ; on silk hat and shoes, frmn ;7) tu III). The duties on all these luxuries, an J many others, consumed by the rich, are ihu reduced, in moM instances, more than one-half; and then the Sec n tary and President turn around and ask us to tax lea and cotl'ee. No, fir, let them restore and increase the duties on luxuries, and then, if they have not revenue enough let them talk about a duty on tea and coffee. Let them restore the three and a half millions of revenue they had lost by tho reduction of the du ties on cotton goods; the Iwo millions on iron sud its matiufaclures; the million and a half Ihey have lost on sugar; the million on woolens and the nullum and a half on sdk goods. Let them restore these protec tive uud revenue duties restore the nine and a half millions taken oil these five articles. SUBTIIKASL'RY LAW. This act is now nearly a year old. What good ha it done to the Government, Sinle or People ? 1 the public money safer than it was? Are six individoils, however respectable or responsible, Jiving in Boslun, .iew iork, rnuauejprnn, Charleston, SI. Louis, nnd iiew wrieans, capahleol keeping the pinilic money as nccureiy as iiMiuuiinns with stockholders and directors incorporated by the Stale Governments, responsible to Slate Government, and irivimr the most am nit? security for Ihe restoration ol every dollar placed on deposit f Without giving security, or convenience lo persons or parlies, or business of any sort, the Sub-treasury has really done a great deal of positive injury to the country. It has multiplied public olliners ui all sections of the country, and at the seal of Government, and thus greatly increased the power of Ihe Executive, by giving him a more complete and less responsible control over the purse strings of the nation. In itself the Subtreasiiry scheme ha all the germs of a grent Government hank largo deposits, large issues, and through the Treasury notes.sentout by million nnd million of dollars, a lane uaner t-ir dilation. The manufacture of oaner uiuncr. indeed. i one of the great branches of business earned on in the Treasury building. This scheme combines the purse with the sword in the one person of the President. It makes a distinction between the necessary currency of the people and the actual currency of the Government. It nn. barrassea the people tn their biisiiiCN n htions, by giving the government, having control of the mints and Ihe collections, a monopoly of Ihe specie. If the people Inve not felt the weight of the oppressive and destructive monopoly, it is because of the Urge im-portations of specie, which in the reatored prosperity of Europe, will return with nnother hirvest,nnd leave Ihe country choked, hy tightening Ihe cords of this strangling scheme of finance. Already ha it cost the Government dearly, and already ha tho Treasury Department, and the subordinate olVicers of the Treasury, devised every possible means which the wit of man could conceive, to get rid of the more stringent enactments of the law. In the immense payments in Mexico no attempt has been made to observe the law ; and yet one would suppose Ihat tho officers of the Government were not absolved from American laws, merely because they were temporarily absent, upon the business of the Government in Mexico. There have been Treasury notes, and Treasury drafts, and l reasury order, and Treasury checks, and Treasury certificates, and all sort of paper inventions, to evade the spirit and letter of the existing law. All these evasion are necessary to give even a practical opera-lion to the scheme; and yet, lo otlicera of Government, and to business men, these operations are attended with the greatest imssible inconvenience. The boxing, traveling, and counting of specie; the carting of specie from the hanks to the custom houses, and back again to and from the Subtreasiiry establish- m.-w, .o- imnsponniinu oi specie irom the Treasury Department lo Up Capitol, its shipment again from one section ot the country in mot !.. l'..,m York to New Orleans at great coat of freight attendance, and insurance, all phnw both ihe inllv ami pi. pense of the scl te itself, (ti its brief day it has proved itself, ( the very best, an experiment and a lailure. Willi the concealments of ,e Treasury, il isnotensyto learn Ihe exli ill of this cost, but" we oiiui hit a pamohlet ol individual oavments and con tracts incident lo ibis transportation of specie from point lo point. The banks d.d all this performed all ihe monetary business Ol (invcrmn.oit without 1 1 urge. Th-y disbursed our ncnuioni without reward of any kind; but nt the taut session of Congress it became necessary to create pension agent, with $ 1 ,000 per annum salaries, in every pirl of the country where il is necessary to iimvidc for lite navmeiit of pennon. This, however, is but an ilem of Ihe cost. We rend the following in Ihe civil and diptonialic bill : For salaries of aai'mtanl treasurers $'JI,h;.' ror auunionai salaries under the SuMreaa-il ry act For special examining agents under Sub treasury act For contingent expenses under Sublrensury act For a chief Sublrensury clerk for Mr. Bmick, N. Y For ten additional clerks, under Subtreasiiry act These nre but a drops of silver in the great ocean of expenditure, and every year these expenses will be increased, until the Sublreasury is metamorphosed into a complete Government bank with powers greater than the Bank nf France or the Bank of England. Ties is the design, and it becomes Ihe people to resist the attempt, by defeating tlms igoged in this enormous scheme for strengthening the Executive arm, wh.le at the same time alienating the Government itself from the common, and tried, and safe institutions of the country. o,000 10,000 2,1 i'H) ir.,7 A Grvat Ki'T At a recent meeting to establish a Juvenile Itrluge in Maiirhculer, the Archbishop of Dublin said Ihey could educate ti It jr children at Ihe same cust that they could keep one soldier. There is (his difference between happiness nnd wis dom. He lhal thinks himself (he happiest man is rrnuy so, mil lie tnnt (lungs lumselt the wisest is gen erully the greatest fool. The Lnke und Kiver Convention. We have had an opportunity of conversing with a gentleman who has recently been through tho entire route from the Atlantic, by the lakes to tins city. Ho has taken an active interest in the convention proposed to be held nl Chicago, on the 5th of July next, at which representatives from every part of tho valley of the Mississippi, and the lake coast, are expected to be present. His correspondence with sections he has not visited, has been even more extensive; and he is every wny well prepared to give correct information of what may be expected on this occasion. From what we learn Irom him, as well as what wo gather from our exchange papers, we nre confident, that this will bo one of the largest conventions of del. egales ever held in thu west, and will combine, in tho person of the delegates attending, a greater amount of talent and distinguished statesmen than have ever-been assembled on any similar occasion. If the ninny distinguished porsons from whom, it is staled, that as-surnuoe have been obtained that they will attend, ns delegates, from their respective localities, the re prerogatives of States or districts, we may, without in-vidioiisnes, mention tho following: Air. Webster. and other from Massachusetts; Silas Wright, Gov Young, ftlr. rilmore, and many others Irom New York ; Gov. Cass, nnd a large delegation from Michi gan; Mr. Corwm, and several other distinguished men, from Ohio. A ti umber of delegation, embrncing somo of the best talent of Indiana and Illinois, have been reported. There is a prospect also, that Mr Clay, from Kentucky, may bo there. Means, wo lenrn, have been token, at least to induce him to attend, and this presents an opportunity for him to do hisfarorite Went a signal benefit it is expected that he will be there. There will also be there delegate! from nearly all the New England States, many of the Middle Stales, and most if nut all, the Western Slates and Territories. Whether the South will be represented or not, we are not informed. Enough is, however, known to assure us that it will be nn assemblage of more than ordinary interest that it will bring together some of the greatest statesmen of the day, and Ine highest talent of the country. It will form an epoch iu the history of the West, and from its action, composed, as it will be, of men of both political parties, we entertain the moat flattering hopes. us iiiiiuenee, we trust, will do tell, not only in tho community generally, but iu the administration of our national nll'airs. Such n combination of talent and practical wisdom an will be there assembled cannot fail to disseminate it influences into every quarter of the land, and every department of the government In this great work, no portion of Ihe country is more directly or deeply interested than this city. We are directly interested in the improvement of the navigation ol our rivers and the protection nf our harbor. It requires no comment at tins day, to convince any one of this necessity. We are al-o interested ill the improvement of the navigation, and the construction of safe harbors on tho lakes. Tim commerce of tho lakes, and the commerce of the Mississippi, are every year becoming more and more closely identified ; and Ihe roads and canal which are opened, or soon will tie, are mnkiug this connection mure complete. For fliese reasons, St. Louis should send to ttiis conven tion, a large and respectable delegation, comprised of ner nmesi, most influential, and talculcd citizens ; men who cun and will represent truly and fairly, the inju ries wit ch the commerce of the Mississippi nnd lis principal tributaries, sustain from the ohstruclijns to lis navigation, and the claims winch we have upon the aid of tliu National Government in this, and the im provement uf our hnrbor. An early selection of delegates, is every wny desirable, if not absolutely necessary, to spcure a proper representation of our ne cessities and claims iu thu convention. Si Louis lit. publican. White Kervifudein MiiMtachusetts. At the present time, when public atlenlion is so earnestly directed tu the subject of slavery, every iuci or circumstance connected Willi its introduction or abolition in any of the New England States is of inieresi. The inhabitants of the colony of Massachusetts Hay, besides their Negro slaves, had natives of Ire-laud, Scotland and England in subjection lo them, whose lime, for a period of years, longer or shorter, was sold to pay the exienes of their transportation. After the battle nf Dunbar, Cromwell's "crowning mercy," and again, alter Ihe defeat of the followers of Charles Stuart at Worcester, the "great crowning mercy," Parliament, the tool of the army, ordered the prisoners, whose rank was too low to entitle them to Ihe honor of being beheaded, to be transported to the plantations. They were sold to pay for the passage money ; that is, the masters or owners of ships si (rest ports took Ihem on board, conditioned to deliver them on shore in one of the pUniutions. Cromwell glndly executed the execrable policy, and sent the major part of these victims of civil "war lo the West Indies, where, no doubt most perished by the climate. Others, whose happier chance was to be taken by Ihe ship John and Harsh, Capt. John Greene, were brought to the portof Charlestown, consigned to John Kemble, to he disposed of by hifU, ior inn account m jonn if ecr and Hubert llich. J he names of two bundled and seventy of Ihe persons shipped on board tho John and Sarah, while wiih tho owner's instructions, are recorded in Suffolk county records for the year UmI Many of these names are ine same, o ttoth Christian and surnames, as those of our fellow citizens of the present day. The common names of Ross, Gordon, Robinson, Simson, Boyd, Smith, Anderson, Jackson, Hamilton, Stewart, Wilson, Hunt, Patterson, Hudson, Moore, Russell, Howe, Miller, Kallender, Perry, Jones, Grant, Morton, and Scott, together with numerous others, appear. N'-srly the whole number have Scripture names. Forty-live, or one-sixth part of the whole, bear the names of John; twenty-six rejoice in the name of Daniel; twenty-three are called James, nod fourteen David. Of those designated by Hebrew names. eighteen are called " Patrick," which is nearly as good as a Scripture title, for il is the name of a Saint. Ihe Key. John Cotton, the thrn venerable pastor of Ihe First Church in Boston, wrote the " Loan GriKitAl. Crohwci.!.," in the year lli.il, as follows : " The Sent whom (tod delivered into your hands at Duubarrc, and whereof sundry were sent hither, we have been desirous (as we could) to make their yoke easy. Such as were sick of the scurvy or other diseases have not wanted phvsickand chyrtigery. They have not ocen sold for slaves lo perpetual servitude, hut for ti or 7 or d years, as we d our own ; ami he that bought the most of them (I heart-) buildelli houses lot them, fur every 4 an house, layrlh some acres of ground thereto, which he gtveth them as their own, requiring; a days in the week to worke for hun (by lurncs) and 4 dys for themselves, and pro in-iseth, as sonnc as Ihey can repay him the money he layeth out for them, he will sel them at liberty.' In loW Ihe average pneo of a white servant, where live years' service was due, was about 10, while a Negro was worth '.0 or JCi'i. Gov. Braditreet, in IGO, says, about one hundred or ono hundred and twenty of these persona were living in servitude, and shout htlfas many Irish. Ductless there are many individuals, upon whom fortune has smiled, in this country, and whose children assume a palncian haughtness on account of Iheir family ponscssious, would arrive at the cargo of Ihe John and Sarah, were they In Irace back tlo-.r .n. eestry, and would there find ihe order for Iheir fathers' market value, lo be invested in " provisions, and h other thing as are, iu New England, lit for the West indies ; and m scan-lung for their lamily cat ol arms, would sscerlain the fact, that their oroifenilors had no coals to their arms, Won Conner. The Charleston Mercury contains a report of an port a nt ease recently decided in South Carolina, from whih wo gather Ihe following fsels: The Charleston Bank, it appears, loaned a customer sVto.OtHI. and nt. reived iu pledge Hl.iek nf the Itailrond and Bank l oinpany to the amount ol Ml shares, as collateral I'furity. 1 he note was not nnul at maturity : and at the request of the debtor tune was given Iroin Mh December, ;W, to January 4, 8 ; when, after full notice, the sloek was sold ui open market by a broker, and bid otfnt the full market price, by the President of the bank, who caused Ihe amount of sales to be carried to the credit f Hie dcbi. The slock was bid oft at about ftl.'i per shan : some mouths alter it depreciated, and was sold al a considerable profit. In .lovemoer, ll.., a lull was tiled lo compel the Bank to give credit for their re-iale, on Ihe ground that, being Trustee to sell, Ihey could not buy themselves, snd, as Trustees, must account for all their profits to ttieir "rrrtMi yur trust," and so Chancellor Job Johnson, in an elaborate decree, decided. An appeal was taken hy the Bank to the appeal Court of Equity, and was argued at Us Inte selling, hy II. F Hunt and C. G. Memminger, Eq re , fur appellant, and Mr. Bailey, Attorney General, and Mr. Hayne, for Ihe appellee. The appeal Court reversed the decree, and dismissed ihe lull, Uius stlirming ihe validity of the sale, Many large cases were awaiting tins decision, and thousands would have been put into litigation if the decree had been sustained. The position maintained by Ihe Bank, and sustained by Ihe ApH'nl Court, were thew: Grounds nf .Ippeal. 1st. Because, alter the default, there was in fad no fiduciary relslions between Ihe bank and its borrower, in Ihe just sense of Hit terms. There was no obligation to serve, and no compensation for service. The stock was actually sold lo the bank, and transferred al the inception of the debt, and after the default was the property uf Ihe bank, wlto wen only bound to give credit for il al tin tune payment was peremptorily demanded, winch they did. itd. Because the usage of banks is obligatory on it customers, suthormng, m case a redemption it not effected,- sale by a public broker, as a common agent ; nnd the creditor, having an interest, is aulhonted lo proh ct Ins interest, by bidding ; otherwise, in ease of insolvency of the debtors, Ihey could not seeure themselves by giving the highest hid at auction. A Mis Lamb, of Indians, eloped recently with a Mr. Shephetd. Wo supposu lie look her " hy hook or bv ttook" Madriver Itnilrottd. We oussed from tho Lak tn tlm nMiint tupinmii. of this road, during our late absence, and found tho improvement, nnd the affairs of tho company, in much better condition than wo anticipated. Beyond Tifliu. the comt.sn. i. -.1--;. tl. n.j and putting it in first rate traveling order. This side of Tifliu, tho track is excellent, and the train made "express " time. Leaving Sandusky city about six o'clock, we were at Richland, the present terminus, ! iiinu nir n iaie o inner, uisiance ninety-two miles. When tho repairs on the upper part of ihe track aro completed, and the work extended lo Urbane, we are satisfied Unit the distance, lao miles, will be made in seven hurs. Wo shall even then, without waiting to close up thu gap at this point, make the passage from the Lake to the river by daylight. While at Sandusky City, we visited the ehops ol the company, nnd found a large number of men engaged in car building and other work required by the business of the road. The shops had just turned out a handsome car, so arranged es to carry the baggage, uiim upon an exigency, accomodate a number olpassengers. A great part of the nresent linn nas ihrnnrrh . broad and extensive forest; and yet the company Ims more business than iu facilities enable it to transact. As this unopened country becomes settled and cultivated, the business of the Mad will be i hundred fold, and ils stock will become, the most valuable in Ihe Union. The company is looking forwnrd to an extension of business, and funking requisite preparations for it, They have now five locomotives busily engaged, and are daily looking for two new and powerful engines from Patterson. N. J. Thev have one hundred freight cars in use, which number will bo increased to one hundred and seventy-five by Ihe first of September. The daily receipts of tho company are about fjjt.t.i0, which will be increased tofcoOO when Ihe road is linish-d to Uellefontaine. Their receipts of the months of Fehrunry, March, April, and half uf May, show an increase of more than .40.000 over the corresponding period in 18.(J, 1 ho road is now used to Richland, ninety-two miles. It is almost completed to Uellefontaine. ten miles for. thpr; and it will in a month be extended to Wmt Liberty, twenty-four miles north of SDrinirfinld. Be tween Bellef'oitlBiue and West Liberty, tho road cros-bcs a small prairie, which is evidently a lake, over tho surface of which a heavy sod has grown. The road was graded and the contractors were about to deliver it as finished, when suddenly it disappeared, and twelve feet water was found in its place. Thirty years ngo mo grass was cut on this prnirtc and hauled etf on a heavy wagon. It is supposed that there is a subterranean communication between it and tho neighboring lakes. The road will probably have to be carried urouud the prairie. At Uellefontaine and West Liberty, private enterprise is anxiously awaiting the incoming of the road. Handsome and roomy warehouses are already erected, and doubtless will soon be crammed with the products of that fertile region of the State. Springfield A Picture of War, A correspondent of the Philadelphia North Ameri can, alW describing the battle field of Cerro Gordo, says: 1 never denre to visit another such a field after battle. When the fiirht is romiiir men can look um.ii the dead and shrink not from his bloody features; but but to walk cojdly over hundreds of human bodies, blackened and bloated by the sun, stretched around among broken muskets and dismounted cannon tho teed anil the rider ottering inviting banquets to tho foul birds thai here battened upon Ihem on every hand, sickens the senses and the soul; strips even victory ol'its gaudy plumage and stamps the w hole with an unspeakable horor. Passing down the ravine where the National Guards had three limes attempted to dislodge ihe mounted Riflemen who, supported by the howitzer battery, lilternlly rained death among iiiuir ranks, i was obliged lo turn back and retrace my step. The gorge was choked no with the bndi.-a nf rh flower of the Mexican Army. The wolf dog and the buz urd howled and screamed as I rode by, and the tench was too sickening to endure. Passing on, we came to the hospital where the badly wounded still lay the Mexicans first and next the Americans. 1 could not but notice the difference between them. The wounded Mexicans groaned piti. fully, while not moan was to be heard from our people. The Mexicans cannot endure fire and pain hke the Americans. Quick and imoetuous. thev will for a moment face danger and death like heroes; but the long ted ous hours of sickness or pain, or a lasting battle in which men aro required to overcome extraordinary artificial and natural obstacles, aro too mucn ior them l hey have all the tolnxe ot burning shaving, not the lasting lire of Ihe charred coal. For many miles we passed along a ditch, dug from Kncera to (he pass of Cerro Gordo, which furnishes us excellent water. All along the road were the bodies of .Mexican lancers and their horses, cut down by Col. Harney's dragoon, when the so fire eaters chased Santa Anna and his retreating troop beyond Jala pa. Almost rvery man's skull woe literally split npen with Ihe sabres of our horsemen, and they luy stretched upon the ground in ghastly groups. Weekly Nntlonal Intelligencer. This patter is about to be enlarged to exnctlv twice its present sue, and will then consist of eight folio pages, instead of four, a now and heretofore. Una enlargement will begin with the first number issued after the end uf the month of June. I he subscription lo the paper per year will be, after the first day of July ensuing, Three Dollars per annum ; bemg an advance, as will be perceived, less by one- half than the increase of cost of publication caused by the enlargement. For tho long sessions of Congress Cavemirinff eieht months) the price will be Two Dollar ; for tho short sessions One Dtdlar per copy. a reouctton oi i per cent, (or one -filth or the full charge) will be made lo any one who shall order and pay lor, at one time, lire copies of the Wrekiv panvr : and a like reduction of 'io p-r cent, (or one-fourth of the full charge) to any one who will order and pay for at any one time un or more copies. no mr counts Dcing kept lor this paper, it will not hit forwarded lo any one unless paid for in advance, nor sent any lunger than the time for which it is so paid lor. The Dully Nnlionnl Intelligencer Will continue to be published, aa usual at Ten Dollars per year, with this addition to its value to subscribers ; that a double sheet (eight pages of the present site in-stend of four) will ha thrown off whenever the press nf Public Documents, Proceedings and Debates in Congress, or of Advertisements, shall require it. The Thrlce-a-Wcck Nnlionnl Intelligencer Will also continue to be published, as heretofore, with this addition also to its value: Ihatadouhlo sheet will be thrown oil', probably aa often as once a week during; the Session of Congress, and at other times occasionally, whenever the press of matter shall, at elated in regard to the Daily paper, justify the Publishers in incurring that additional expense. Saniiusrv Ci.ahios Knend Cinr.be 11 announce that his paper of the present week closes a quarter of a century since he commenced the publication of the Clarion. On looking over his original subscription list, he find the names ot but & persons on it, who are aubacrttHrs at Ihe present lime, Ihe most of whom have taken the paper for yeara. Mr. C. says, Of .V.'l name on our book Ihe first year, we have heard of Ihe death of ll'J, and of about aa many moro we havo no knowledge. A large, portion of them have probably passed from this life. Wo suppose one tlitrd of the whole number are dead." Such are Ihe changes of a quarter of a century Mr. Campbell has been constantly connected with Ihe Clarion Own ils com mencement, and there la but one editor in Ohio we believe, Mr. Saxtnn, of Ihe Ohio Repository, w ho has been 0r ao long a period engaged, without change, m the same pursuit. We well recoiled the anxiety to see the first number of the CNnuii fell by the log cabin people sparse ly srauervii siong uic iaae snore west o L levclntid. Ihe estabhshineiil o a newspaper in this wilderness section was (hen considered an event of n small im portance, and tho experiment a doubtful ono at tho best. The principal mails were carried hut once a week, and the facilities for Ihe rirciilatinn of newspa pers among subscribers were poor indeed. Mr. t 'amp-bell located his press at Sandusky, with but small actual encouragement, but he correctly foresaw what improvement tune, industry and entrrprine would ef-led in a country where nature had so generously don her pari, and we rejoice that his enterprise has hern successful, and is rewarded with a substantial compe tence, iho i inrion la lo be enlarged and adorned with a new dtesa. The proposition to issue a daily ia suspended for the present t hr. Iterld. Ht.AVKNV t Il I milt tVlt IM in Txnl k( r.,.1 1 : the words of Ihe Wilmot proviso inloour conaiiiuiniu, witlt such an addition an will pnmihil slavery i 1st If nut wi!l pmhiiui any legislation which acknowledges its existence in any other Slate. Every human being !....(. ll... Illin.ua ,..! all. ml. I Km f provided by Ihe Tutted Slates law. On our own noun d to service should not appear. If other States will have slaves, it is a quasi endorsement for u to make laws to facilitate Iho capture of fugitives. ( hi- ruga itrmoerai. n.iitmniis to . . a a i. t hp rtmyrain iifi'in hi Canada received notice hy the last steamer thai 10,. tilti immigrants were un their way to Quebec, from the United Kingdom. We regret lo learn Hint many of the Farmers in this vicinity have hi I their Corn, Oats, and Flax, and noiue other riops, by the ravages of the Cut-W onus, flu is the lift visitation of this kind here for many years. Pioun UrpvrUr

, : - ' : ' " WEI OH 0 STATE 0 RNAL VOLUME XXXVII. COLUMBUS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1847. NUMBER 41. PUlll.lSHI',1) KVIiKY WKDNKSPAY MOUNINCJ, Y WILLIAM B. Til HALL. Ollico in the Journal Building, onth-eimt corner of Ilil street and Suar alley. T K RMS: Timrr TVw.r.Atts pt.h annum, which mav bodisrlis.rffcil by ttm payment of Two fioi.l.Aits in advance, and frcu of pontage, or nf per cent.iire. to Agents or Collectors. The Journal is also published daily during llie session of trio Lou 1 1" latum, ami thrice ti wens, tun nimainuer oi mid jmr for $f ; ami throe times a wtok, yearly, fur jf I. TIILMSDAY EVENING, Juno 3, IN?. Kitturnl Curiosity. Mr. Kei.looo called at our sanctum tliii morning, with a pair of curious young aniittaU, for which in1 has not been able to find a name or classification. They were found in tho broom-corn field of Messrs. Eaton, on t)ie Scioto bottom, opposite tho city and arc about Iho size of a half-grown rat, with Wail and tn.il like a rnbit, fur like a mole, foot like a ground-hog, bind leg Bonn.' thing like a kangaroo, mid apparently four or five dayi old. He liai exhibited I linn f) sevi ral naturalists, but none can tell to what genua the youngsters belong. Strnwherriea The Amende. A few days since wt noticed some strawberries, a specimen of which had lt'in left at our oilice by .Mr. Burr, some of which measuring t!J inches in circumference." This we regarded a favorable, and in making the statement did nntVWn doing injustice to .Mr. HuKii. But he hit convinced u that we did so, by leaving with us some specimen nearly twice as large as those! and these ho says, aro not a fnir specimen of what he will show, in a few days ! Tin1 varieties now shown, are Burr's New Pmo Burr's Columbua Ilurr'i Mammoth Burr's Seedling and a new variety not named. I.ncoloco Prctcnrun Short-llvcil Deceptions, Tho history of Locol'ocn prediction and deceptions for the last six or eight yeara in this country, and especially in Ohio, would present a curious spectacle. Ju matters of political difference, neither party is apt to he so absolutely and entirely wrong hut that a p. pmrantti can be preserved for a considerable period, and time given to Hlide olf unobserved, upoti other questions, without a very complete exposure. It is ; indeed true that exposure must sooner or later follow error; but exposure tun often depends upon dncu-nientary evidence and history, which are attentively examined but by the few, who are observant and careful, while the great mans suffer their teachings to past unheeded. Too much time usually transpires in political matters, between the errors and their results, to allow the matter to remain entirely fresh in the re collection of the pcuplc. Such we say it usually the case but such has not been the case with the recent career of the Lucofoco party. We have heretofore had occasion, recently, to allude to the singular fatality, and enormous losses accompanying the process of Lucofoco " Dink Reform." It was a series of failures, and of abortive expori- Neiv liuolts. Tim lU.nnvr.HiK ok tub Colonial anii Revolu TioNAitv Timks. Wiik sketches of early Jimeriean Statesmen anil Patriots. Two orations, delivered before the New England Society of Cincinnati, by Rev. 12. L. Mauoon, and published by request of the Society. Eur sale at tho B ink Store of Mr. Hcitonns. Famiuau Lksso.is on Puvsiolouv, Designed fir tho u. of Children and Yonth in Schools and Families. By Mrs. L. N.Fowi.t.k. Illustrated by numerousen. graving!. New York, J8-17 pp ii'i. For sale by Blain & Ackermnn. The Tkktii, Their structure, Diseases, and Trent' ment. By John Bukijki.l, Dentist. New York, 1647 pp.?-'. For sale by Blain & Aekennaii. " Coroner's Inquest. An inquest was held over the bodies of two young men, supposed to bo about twenty one years of age, near Gruveport in this county; they had only been at the Grove a few days, employed by A. M. Burgis in a brick.yard as laborers. Their" clothing was chiefly country-made linsy or jeans, they was about an ordinary size, freckled, with rallier sandy hair. They told Mr. Burgis they came from Marion county, and on a memorandum book found in their pocket the names of Adam Wolf mid Benjamin Nichols was found, also on a pocket Testament in their clothes the name of Adam Wolf was found. It wus suppos. ed they had went in to bathe, and not being acquainted Willi the water, they gut in where they could not swim. For any further information required by the friends nf the deceased address the undersigned or W, II. Rarey at Groveport. H. HOWARD, Coroner. Columbus June 3d, 1H 17. me ii in, limit wimij cut n uuii'i in (iiin:n viifTi:rnniuii, so i that even Locot'oeu hardihood could scarcely face the ,,n"cv ''' t' um.U deplorable condition. Tho Fciitn of Whiskery." " Whiugry it as, during its ascendancy in our Stale Legislature, dunk hotnimj which can permanently recommend its principles to popular favor." Ho says the tiolon of the Chill irothe .Uhertiser ; and, so far as the partial pages of his paper evince, the declaration is true. But acts tell a very different story. Let us examine them. WiuooKuv devised the system of Interna! Improvement which has converted the wilderness of Ohio into productive fields. WiMofiKitf made more miles of canals and turnpikes with three millions of dollars, than Lneotbcoiffin. und its party blood-siiekerH, did wilhyrzvctt millions. WiuuoKiiv, on three dilf. reiit occasions, when Lo. cofucoism had pushed the State to the verge of Rum, stepped into the Legislature in time to save the Com. inoiiweallli irom Itepudiation and perman'eut Disgrace. WiiKiornr found tlio Stale Revenue insutlicieiit to meet the interest on the public debt, created by Loco-focoisui, and the Tax Law micmial und iuiimieiiL uud devised and put in operation n Revenue system which meeis aiuiohi universal approval, enables the Stale to more than fulfill herenvuyemimfs, and is eliciting from the wine and good, in other Stales, such en comiums as swell the heart of every Ohioan with bon- t pride. Wnimmiv found a corrupt pre at tu Caoilal. bntlctiing on the patronage of tint Stale, and reform ed we entire system ot I'ublic rriiitnig, thus securing a saving to the Treasury of many thousands per annum. WiiMifiKiir found the National Road, from Wheel ing to Indiana, infested with a set of Locul'oco iinrpies in tin shape i.f StiperinteuJanti,' who had sqoan. ilered the puMic I'iukIh, and brought both road and It- mil- people and ask for further coniidei.ee. The peopl,. ,,n,,'u ,mi Svivu rastais, ami put in f , . . honest men. havmg placed the legat.ve power 11. the hands of Wum.iiu ha restored to the State a good conver. tho Whigs, they net about their Imsim-Hs in earnest, I tihle paper currency, and driven beyi.ud our borders and brought forth their measures. The Locofocos 1 the red-d g and wild eat sliin-plmters introduced tin had exhausted all their expedients, and had failed I ,lrr patronage of the Loe.of..co deatructives, who, No one of their expedients lived long enough to entitle its death lo the observance of funeral obsequies. They had nothing further to propose and consequently based their claims to further indulgence, not so much upon tkrir oim vttrits, as upon the errors which thnj imputrd to the Whigs ! They had succeeded iu break-; ing up most of the old banks, and hoping to be able to break up the new ones, claimed some indulgence at: the hinds of the people on that account. But the people, not having any great desire to see any more lanks broken, or to have another shin-plaster l.ocot'o-co era follow so soon upon he heels of the last one, ' respectfully declined the overture. j With regard to the new tax law although a similar measure had been repeatedly recommended and urged by public functionaries of their own political stamp, and was obviously indir,pensable thnj nercrthtlrst ei-posed it ! A nd yet, their opposition was not grounded upon tin- idea of their having to propose any better plan of their own for public consideration. They fought as the Mexican are proposing now to light, in little organ ii-d squads of guerrillas. They hung out no banner and recognised no common principle of objection, except the principle if fault finding and earils Did they find any where in the law, a passage susceptible of a doubtful or wrong construction, a hundred Locofocu editorials and Hpeeches were hung upon it, like Weathersfield onions upon a string. Did they see something like a shadow, any where in the law they let themselves down upon it, each hanging to the assertions of the other, like the Wclchuien celebrated in tradition, who, supposing they had discovered a green cheese in the river, let themselves down by each others' heels, to tub up the reflected intake ol the moon They were is it to blame for not telling what they wanted for clearty they did not know exactly what they were driving at themselves. They wanted to find fault so far they uudersltod them-elves ; and so far only could they make others understand them. Their prominent notion was, that banks were not milVtcieully taxed. They pretended to believe that the banks were required to piy less taxes lh:in their proportion. It was in vain tint the matter was demonstrated over and over again, that bank stock would pay heavier taxes thin any other kind of property They would not see it. They were blind as owls; and like that delightful kind of bird, kept un a dolorous hooting. They did not believe thnj knew', Martyrdom could not shake their faith tire could not melt it out of them. And a stranger, listening for the fimt time to one of their speeches, or reading one ol their editorials, would have supposed their political creed to consist of '.wo items : 1st. That the hanks were not nalficiently laied. lid. That the great end and aim of man in tins his earthly pilgrimage, were to take core that bank slock and other properly should he taxed exactly alike. These fundamental and doctrinal notions they spoke and sung, and set forth in wood cuts. The no were the test of " Democracy " and were worn as badges in the hats of LMilors, stump orators, and such other like people -tear her And these, like the rest of their pretensions, were false. Whether they really knew the i il to be falsi', we do not undertake to say ; hut they might have known tliem to be so, had they eared to know any thing about the matter. But the tune lias now come when trtry body will know them to be false. Mr. Auditor IVornls u his last annual report, (page 11,) after giving a statistical table, phoning the amount of taxes paid by the new hanks, says; " It u thus shown th-t the indru ndent ll.tnhs nnd the branch's of ke state bunk, pay an artrage of eight mills an ihr dol'ar on tkrir capital." If we can now ascertain how much tax other property payr, we rhall have the whole reckoning tn a nut shell. The Auditor says, on the same page of hts report: " The total taxes of the year far mil purposes, trill not tiered six mills on the dollar." In the same n tc i... ..... . a "i, f r.,t. i..r ' rida """""" .."-j.""'" . ..,,,. till pwposrs, irill not tsmd (hire milts on tki dtdlar,'' t) page ID, lie says:1' It is probable that application will he made by the hank, to have their capital stork placed upon the grand list, and taxed, for State pur poses, an amount equal to the avernge tax paid upon other pruHrty. If the people of the State are disposed to rtliere the banks from the payment of the lax now mscskti) upon Ihctii under the act to incorporate the Slate Bank of Ohio and other banking companies, it may lie well to consider this proposition favorably. But if the Banks, in consideration of the privileges which they enjoy ought to pay n gnater tor upon their stork than is Icricd on other procrty of equal value, they should not bt released Jrom thr rontroctt under which thry trill haretopay a uii.at;htax than will. K LKVIMI rpON THK NtorMUV UV IMHVIDl'AI.." with their delusive cry of "hard money," and their deceptive theory of" low wuges," had well nigh bank, rnpled the citizens. These are some of the feats of ' Whicruery," performed "during it ascendancy in our Stale Leislu-ture." If these thinif.H are nothing," we should like to have a recital of what Locofoeoism has accomplish, ed, and compare act for act. Let us hear you Chtl-luothe Gazette. Iowa. Thomas Mcknight, of Dubuque, it announced as the Roiioli and Ready" candidate for CmigrcH, in that district. The election takes place next August. The Loco Foe os have nominated Wm. Thompson, of Henry, as their candidate for Congress, iu the first district. Drlnxian Smith, as he used to be called under J'din Tyler's administration, G. S. Bailey, of Van Buren, and Kinney, of Lee, were the op- posiu-f candidates. After the firft balloting, Kinney and Smith were withdrawn, ami Thompson was nominated, lie belons to the " Old Hunker" party of Iowa the Dodife clique and nil such, the nomination is regarded n a triumph for that faction. A Whig Convention i to be held at Fairfield, on the 'Jith of .May, to nominate a candidate tor Con-ifress, nnd aUo to or ran no un independent ticket for Commissioners on the Des Moines River grant St. Louis Hrp , May LI. The fnllnrinir paragraph from the Alexandria Gazette is appropriate and pointed: " It continues to be believed by many, that there was mh UHihrttanaing ot some sort or other between Mr folk and his trieml Santa Anna, that the latter was to grant us a pence, at some lime or on some contingency, not understood, or explained. The se ries ol iieieats h( has met with, end his consequent loas of p iwer nnd inllui-uee, hive deprived him of the means of fulfilling hii agreement. Where Mr. Polk i to find another traitur, with whom to make a like bargain, ia a puzililig question. We hope the Admin istration will not condemn (ten. lavmrtor having failed to give Htnbt Anna the 'opportunity ' sought for at Bti'Oia Vista, nnd chart upon his oloitiuacy in refminir to be trhipprd the responsibility of a continu ance o the war. In the mean time it would be irrat- ifvuiir to the p'iMic curiosity to know ichat has Income of the three milium,'" imA The W hi if of Indiana nr rink in ir pro- piration lor a vtif iroin contest atihe Anusielcction. As lar as they hive made their nominations they have lelected excellent men. That there will lie a irain in Congressmen wo have no doubt. In the Inst dm ires we h id but two we cannot do worse next time, but, on the (vmtrarr, will he aluenl certain to do much belter. We have i'ailh that one-half the Del. '-ration will be Whig next tune. In reply to numerous enquiries, we may state that it is m i true that the L'teoiltci of Z.iuesv'dlc are trying to raise a company of volunteers. On the contrary, tliy hav'nl the slimiest idea of it. The " Democratic" pirty lose too iniiiy men fr.un other causes, to permit any valuable live In he jeopardized iu the service of the country. '.unrsrille Courier. Iliri.KV IWxk The stock necessary for commencing operation upon, ($IOO,ihhi) hi tins city, is about all suhncrihcd, and we nro requested to stale, that the bonk Will he closed the last of next week ; therefore, thotie wishing 1 cure stock, would do well to subscribe immediately. The subscription books are at the stores of Messrs. .McMillan A Heynolds. Since the above was in Ivpe we h ive been informed that the stock for the bank has nit been tnken, and the stuck holders are requested n meet on Wednesday next, the 'id of June, at 1 o'clock, for the organiialion of the hanking company. HipUy Hie. Tin: Hi; ovFiu it. The pmnpect in (hi region as far as our observation ha extended, tor fruit of all kind, is exceedingly favorable. Pencil and plum trees, especially, we never snw more thickly set with the yotinir Iruit. Late rnms, aim, have h.id a very favorable e fleet on vegeiiilum gem-rally. W heat is improving iu npHnrancet and grass i coming on finely .Marion l.agle. Productions ol the- I'uited Ntnte. The Patent Oilice Bepirt furnishes the following important iuorui:itin ; Wheal, oats, rye, Indian corn, potatoes, hay and tobacco are raised in every State and Territory iu the Inion. Barley raised in nil except Louisiana. Buckwheat raised in nil except Louisiana and Flo- York, New Jersey. IVnnsvlva- higau, Ohio and Wisconsin do not raise cot- Mi PifAvifto a lUmiKn ! John James, a Chillicothc Barber, was lined $1,1 '.J 4 for shaving on Sunday last and publishes the Mayor's receipt iu the newspaper, as hi "excuse for notifying his customers that it will not do for him hereafter to shave on Sundays." The Receiver ol Public Money at Chicago lately transported to St. Louis $:tril ,iih) in specie, at an expense tu tho Treasury of j:i,i)UU. ma, ton. The State lha do not raise cotton, together with Maryland, Delaware mid Indiana, do not ruse rice. Kvery State and Territory except Iowa, rnU-s silk. Lvcry Slate except Delaware makes suar. New Yotk raises the most barley, vix: l.'J.'-i-'J bushels. New York raises the most pntutoc, vix : i2J,,,)..V;t huihels New York raises the most hay, vix 4,"!-VWIi tons, Ohio raises the must wheal, via: ltl,7-lbl7Ci buih- the most rye, vim: e'JJtC Pennsylvania raise bushels. Pennsylvania raises the most buckwheat, via:(,--111-, .'.nil bushels. Tennessee raises tho most corn, via : Ii7,7;t,-1 17 bushels. Virginia rniies the most flax and hemp, vii: III,-7',M pound. Kentucky raises the moat tobacco, vix: ?'-2,:WJ,r43 pound, Georgia raises the most cotton, vix: 1 1,17."), P-j'J pon ml. South Carolina raises the most rice, vii ; Gti.H.ilm? pounds. Cioaks. The amount smoked yenrtv in the V. S would rducalc 00,1)00 youth at sVJOO each. (10,000,-(MO in smoke ! LATCH MIO.n THIS 1IKAZOS. Humored Orient of Col. Voniiihnn Court Martial vp- on (Jen. La at ami Cut. HoipIc.3 The Proceedings and luidinir vt the Court Jeics from Dumnga Preparations for the Dvparture of (Jen. CadwuluUcr 's lamina ml Jur kaa Cruz, $-c. i,-o Tim U. S. steamship Trumbull, Cant. Stntsbury. arrived at New Orleans on the ;WJ ult., from the Bra. os, whence she sailed on the llKh, ult. The following passengers came over on the Trumbull: Capl. A. B. LansiiiT, Capt. K Webster nnd servant, and Cupt. Crowimltield, Massachusetts Volunteers ; Capt. Claiborne, Lieut. Frost, Father McKlroy, nnd thirty-nine deck pasdeugers, iiiohIIv discharged volunteers. Capt. Lansing, Webster nnd Crowingsliield return to the States for a short tune for the benefit of their health. 0.mle the" most important intelligence by this arrival concerns the safety of Col. Doniphan's command, which is thus leported by a correspondent of the Picayune, under dale of Monterey, May Kd: "There is a report here, derived from pretty good authority, from Col. Doniphan's force, and of a very unwelcome character. Il is derived from an attache of tho army nt Silenas, a small town wilhin about forty miles of this place, and lie obtained the information from Mexicans who just nrnved. It is to the cli'ect that Col. Doniphan s force had been attacked at a pass nailed Sierra Gordon, about half way between Saltillo nnd Chihuahua, by a Mexican force from Durango under Gen. Riez of whom 1 never recollect ot hearing before nnd that Col. I), had been defeated with severe loss, and all his artillery captured. There may be some truth in this report, as the Colonel was eu route to join Gen. Wool's command at Saltillo, " The Picayune, in reference to this letter remarks: We are L'-eatly in hopes that this will prove to be a mere Mcxicnn rumor, and we are encouraged i it this hopo by the fact that the Picket Guard, published at Saltillo on the Urd. makes no mention of the rumor, and anticipates the speedy arrival of Col. Doniphan and his command at that place. By (his nrrival we learn that Brig. Gen. Cad wain-dor is to forthwith lo proceed with his command (ex. cepting the dragoons,) now encamped at Palo Alto lo vera Lruz to remtorce tjeneral Scott. The transports were being prepared at tho Brazus when the Trumbull left At last accounts the most intense curinsitv was felt at Monterey nnd Saltillo to learn news of Gen. Scott movements 1 hey had not then heard ol the victory of'Cerro Gordo, lint had innumerable false rumors of operations on the Vera Cruz road to Mexico. The Picket Guard of Monterey contain tho re sult of a court mtirtial in the eases of Gen. Lane and Col. Bowles, in connection with the retreat of the ltd Indiana Regiment, nt the battle of Buetm Vista. In Slavory in the, ratnnd in tho Future Politicul 11 istory. Hon. Jons W. Tavi.oh, well remembered by ninny of our older citizens as a leading democrat of this Stale prior to and during the last war, eminent in our Legislature, and afterwards in Congress, retired from nclive life several years ago, having been struck with a paralysis while a member of our State Senate from the llh District. He now of lives in retirement at Cleveland, Ohio, whence the following letter was recently transmitted by him to Hon. Chahi.es Hudson, and by the latter communicated to the Boston Alias. It will be iouud deeply interesting in its reminiscences, and sound iu its position. Read and heed ! Ci.kvki.ami, Ohio, May lf, 1817. Ho, CllAitt.KS Huiisoa. Dear .Sir : Continued infirmity has delayed thanks for the considerate kindness which has relieved my solitude, by your speech on the y.MIJO.OOU bill, read and re-read with entire approbation and pleasure. In the loth and Kith Con-giesses, when my efforts to arrest Slavery in Missouri and Arkansas were d feated by dough faces, the result was deeply deplored ; but nonu then anticipated the present fearful declension, when the heart's blood of freemen is poured out in foreign lands, to enlarge nnd perpetuate human bondage. The axiom you uu-nounce, "A conquering republic is a political solecism," lays at the foundation of our Union. Its dia-regard must lead to dissolution. We have gone far in u downward course, when Congress, instead of impeaching and removing a President, who wantonly usurps it prerogatives of making war, tamely assumes the war, with u lie on its front, and authorizes its prosecution for objects too base to he avowed. The dough faces of the tilth Congress are justly chnrga-ble with the triumph of Slavery; for although Mr. Scott, the delegate of M;0')uri, and the slave owners in Koniiicliy, opposed the restriction ngninst Slavery, yet, after it passed the House of Representatives, they implored their friends to acquiesce, which Would have been the peaceful result, had not Slavery found Senator from free States, then the majority, false to their constituents. From thii fittal beginning, the course of Freedom has bei n downward. The attempt to make Missouri a free State has been falsely attributed lo unworthy ambition. Bear with me, while 1 relate some fads not generally known of its origin. One day, early in February, Gen. James Tall- madge, then of Poiighkeepste, in Congress from Dutchess County, was sitting with me in the room of the Committee on Elections, of which I was Chairman. We discoursed of the petition of Missouri to become a State, then before the I louse, of its noble rivers, fertile soil, and position by the side of the Northwest Territory, und lo which would, doubtless, have been applied the free ordinance of I7r7, confirmed by the first Congress, had Missouri then beluiii'edto the Union. Tliu rich fruits of that ordinance were brought fur- the case of Gen. Lane, ihu following was the opinion ward. We both felt the solemn duty of applying its )1 the court : Otiinion. The court nre of opinion that duniin the whole period of Iho Wd and i:hl of February, 1817, Brig. Gen. Lane conducted himself ns a brave ami lallant utlicer, nnd that no censure nl (ached to litin lor the retreat of the 'Jd Beirimeiit of Indiana Volunteers. In the case of Col. Bowleti the court express their opinion in the following plain but emphatic language : U'unttin. Willi relereiiec to the lirst charee, the court is of opinion that dd. Bowie is ignorant of the duties o Colonel ; but the court would remark Ihat ill health, and absence on account of ill he illh, have in some decree prevented him from Mime; hiuiHelf for the duties of that otliee. The court is of opinion that nt the tiuio Colonel Bowleg yave the order " retreat," he was under the imprcrirfimi that the artillery had retreated, when iu fact the battery had none to nn advanced position under the orders of Gen. Lane, which orders had not been communicated to Cul. Bowles. And iu conclusion, the court find that throughout the enga reiiient, and llirDUirh the whole dav. Col. Bowie evinc. d no want of nersoinl eournire or bra very ; hut that he did manifest a wantof capacity and judgment ns a commander. 1 nu .Mataumras tluf av that Gen. Urrea Ins is sued n proclamation to the citizens of Cadareylo, very samilar iu one to that of Santa Anna. He calls upon the town for a contribution towards supporting the war, nnd also orders under arms all able-bodied males between the ace of Hi and 4.V Immediately after having issued this proclamation he set olf for the city of .Mexico. The same English Gentlemen from Duranjo. make the following report, which we copy from the Guard: un tliu route they saw lien. O.trcia Conde on his way to Durango, will) 1.7) men, having ns a prisoner Gen. Herreiha, who commanded at the battle of Sa cramento. He is accused of treason and of being fond of American gold. All the rest of (he troop Ii.nl dis persed lor their homes. Durango was in a irreat stale of alarm, dreading the nrrival uf (Jen. Wool, who was expected by them daily. Mr. James Magollm was a prisoner, with tie- city lor In prison limits, but well treated by the Mexican. Kvery thing was quiet in California, the whole country iu possession of the Americans, and a very great influx of families and settlers from Oregon. The Monterey Pioneer thinks that an advance upon Sail Luis is designed by Gen. Taylor, as unusual activity prevails in all the departments, nnd four trains, loaded with subsistence stores, have recently arrived at that place. Tim Matamorns Flag state that Romano Paz a notorious Mexican robber and murderer, was captured in the vicinity nf Old Reynosa, by dpt. Ileil, of the steamer Corvette, nnd brought down to that city, where he is now imprisoned. It is staled in the .Monterey Pioneer, upon the nil-lliority of a gentleman from San Luis Polosi, that but a few hundred elfective troop were in that city, and in n me nospunis were tilled with the sick and wounded, who were dying for wantof attention. A report reached there that Gen. Taylor wa. willuu three days' inarch of the city, which caused hundred of the inhabitant to ramos with their property. Tim Flag accompanies the following card with a warm tribute to the virtues and piety of the Rev. Mr. M - Kirov: A Cako. The undersigned, being about to return to the United Stales takes tins opportunity of expressing his gratitude to the citien of Matauinra, with whom he hid the pleasure nt an acquaintance, lor their marked kindness and attention on all occasions, and this without regard to religious opinion. To the oltircra of the nnny he acknowledge continuous acts of courtesy, during his sojourn Willi lliem the reco. lection nf which will ho cherished by huu through life, and will enable him to appreciate their noble deeds, accompanied, always, by Ira ltd still mure glorious the humane, kind, and truly Christian treatment of their vanquished enemy, whether ns prisoners of war or wounded on the batile-tield. My lerveut wishes nnd prayers, though ntisent from the nrmy, shall he elicited for lis members, and for a speed v nnd honorable pence, Jon M. MrKnmv, Chaplain U. S. Army. Matamorns, May II, IHI7. liiiter from Verm Cruz. The schooner Whig, Cnpt. Rayner, arrived at New Orleans on the Jlst mst. from Vera Cruz, having left there on the evening ol hitunlay, the loth mst. Lieut. A. J- Brock nnd thirty-three privates, being company F. of (he Tennessee cavalry, came passengers on lliu Whig. Verbally, wo lenrn, say the Picayune, that there had been no later nrrival from the army of Gen, Scott, From the Kagle of the loth inst., we lenrn that the II. S. sloop of war Germiutown, dipt. F. Buchanan arrived oil the Castle on the Llth ult . but sailed mediately fof Anton Lizardo, to await the orders of the Commodore. The U, S. steamer Spitfire, Lienl Com'g Lee, was lying nt Vera Crux awaiting des. paicncs uaiiy eaperieii iroin ine interior. The Kagle j of the opinion that Gen. Scott will remain nt Puebln until the begiuingof nuiuiim wit hunt marching upon the capital The Kagle gives a somewhat different version of the recent surprise and murder of dragoons at Sinla Fe, near the cilv, from that we have puhliahed. It " " inch. v.npi, ei np.iicu uy lint new mm law, HI CoiiPCljllellCO Walker was still in pursuit of the murderer, having j of hi master having attempted Intend him for sale to attacked one party, and tell four of them dend on the j a Southern market. AH that the coii,tnlmii nnd law '""'Id- gives the master he shall have; hut not content, ho The high- complain m good set terms of llie dull.' usurps, while lilking of equality, nnd linn actually won ties of Vera Crux and the excessive heat, which ! hy threats of disunion, political power una ui honied by threaten to liecome yet more intense. Nothing is the constitution. But what can I do Palsied from -ud of the health of the city. From the report of ihe head to foot, and loathing food, the coming battle inut proc Imgs of the city council wo perceive that our he foughl by yuu and your peers, after I gel Hip dis- countrymen have brought a good ileal of American ! charge fur which 1 anxiously look. This note is writ-energy to the task nf cleaning the city, providing a ; tew to suggest the expediency of making any use police, supporting school and ihe like. Before we ! deemed proper of Ihr fact recalled in my letter of l ist are in' "i m. r wyv u may uecome mmiiu, wiinoiu giving prominence in my humble name qui If nil umnvuvi- nu inuimy cujr, principles to the young giant, destined to tie the empire Slato of the West; we set lied the form of re. striction to bo moved, ho mild as to impair no vested right, and we indulged the hope that our brethren of uie Month, like their predecessors ol 17f7, would cheerfully co-operate Willi the great South we hud zealously supported the war of JM'-J, and considered its representative our political friends, cordially sup porting me uuiiiinisirauon oi mt. ilaUi.ion. Saturday, Feb. LI, the Missouri bill being reached, Gen. Tall-madge, as agreed, moved the restriction, after boundaries and other matter were settled. The hour being late, the House adjourned. Monday, Feb. I't, Gt-u. Tallmadge was tou ill to come to the IJnu, and I opened the debate, in a speech widely circulated. On another day, Gen. T. came iu and ably sustained Ihe restriction. The bill passed thus, to oli. The Senate, hy Ihe aid of dough-faces, struck out the restriction of Slavery. Kaeh House adhered, nnd Iho bill failed. During the next Congress, Ceil. Talt-madge was in the service of the State of New York, in another department. The duty of bringing forward and supporting the restriction devolved uu me. My speech on the occasion was fuller and more widely circulated. Aide supporters were not wnnlmir. The House aifaiu passed the bill restrictiii'r slavery. The dough-faces iu Ihe Senalo persevered iu misrepresenting the free States, some against positive inslruC' uoii, an ainiMiig commence, i he committee of conference reported the comproiiiMe, which slavery nod dougll-face enforced, against Hie vole of freedom's sou. On the parage of ihis compromise, Randolph said of these dtiwjhfae.es, as he called them, " we got all wo wanted ; had wo needed more, they were iu tl mrket." Slavery then triumphed in a victory which now it pretends deprived it of inherent rights north of liii deg ;t.) nun. November, If4',' I, Mr. Clay sent his resignation ns Speaker, nnd the contest of Freedom nnd Slavery was renewed in choice of a successor, which, alter ihree days' balloting fell on me. December I8',', Van Buren came Senator from New York, with fourteen New York Hui'ktails in the House, having, in opposition lo my effort, turned Clinton out of the nmn age ment of his own Canal, breathing slaughter to any one. who refused to cry, down with Clinton ! The day Congress met, seven ballots showed no election, though Ihrico I had a plurality, the seventh within four of a majority over the four oilier candidates. The Bucktailj voting for C. A. Rodney, of Delaware. The South steadily voting for a slaveholder. The Smith finding New York Bucklails resisted me, fearing nnolher ballot would elect, ell'ecled an adjournment to hold caucus. In caucus the Bucklails were beaten by the South, us at Baltimore since ; nnd Birbonr who like Polk was unexpected, and who had not received a vole in Iho House, was nominated, whether by tho two-third rule 1 know not; but on Hie twelfth ballot he was elected. Not a week passed before double Ihe number of New York Bucklails required to secure my cleclmn, vx. pressed regret at their being made the tool of "tho Northern man with Southern principles." But it was too late. 1 mention this only for Ihe lesson it should teach the divided North. The South on Slavery be-ing a Macedonian phalanx, (ten. Alex. Smithe lohl me I was rejected us Sjienker, only lor my opposition bt Slavery. Others said ihey voted against me with regret, but they could not go home, if they voted for me ngamst a Virginian. Gen. Mercer alone, of a Slave Stale, representing the distnol still Wlrg, give me publicly hi open ballot. May I hope tint, taught hy experience, the free States will insist on the true bounds of Texas on the Nueces, south of Red River, nnd thai no territory now Ireo shall ever be subject to Slavery. The spirit of slavery in nil time is at war with free labor. Il wn evinced in the uncnnslilulional vote of Texas lo repeal the Tariff of '41. If the North continues to submit to usurpation, it deserves to breed whiteslaves. On ihe verge of the grave I ahull not live to tee the evd, but my children must hear it; for SI ivory, like avarice, sharpens Us appetite by the food it devours. Some men have been republicans in spite of Slavery, hut its tendency u evil, only ev.l, and Ihat continually. The Fathers of the Revolution looked upon it as a temporary evil, to bo removed at the earliest day; a generation ha arisen striving lo make il eternal. In great infirmity 1 write from day to day lo a kindred spirit, 1 fear too long, but am truly Your friend, JOHN W. TAYLOR. In a private note, in reply to Mr. Hudson's request of leave to publish the above, Mr. Tay lor observe ; Whatever 1 wrote was written without a doubt of it truth ; and Incut, if useful to promote the cause of Freedom and Free Latur, should not be withheld. Grout efforts are making to magnify nnd consolidate tho political power of the slnvehotiJmg interest. 1 would rob it of no constitutional rihx In Mti, 1 rejoiced to find ilMtnoNt ardent friend in Congress, uniting cordially nnd elUciently with tin advocates uf free labor in establishing the American system. Ahs ! that this union was ever disturbed. There is much objection lo slavery in principle, but il practical hostility to free American labor makes it especially odmus in our Union. The vole of Texas against free labor, nt the expense of her own interest, more than anything else, ha mused me, on the brink of the grave, and recalled my struggles against the malignant uillnenee of slnvery in by-gone years. 1 nomine need my pro icMMooai ine uy rescuing inmi slavery a Iree man, Mi;tiioiut N. Y. CieoutiNi t:. The ease of tho Itev. John C. Green, which had been under consideration some day, was disposed of on Tuesday. The alleged ground of complaint was that Mr, Green, in hi character n pistor of tlm Centenary C hurch, Brooklyn, ha infringed the discipline by giving certificate and other recouimend itory paper lo Rev. J, N. Matlit, without due authority Mr. M. being, at Ihe time, a member of nnolher church and under notice of charges to he preferred. The charge ngninst Mr. Green were mainly supported by ihe Rev. Dr. Peck, and niter hearing Mr. Green in defence, (he conference ndopted the following resolution by a vote of ?!l to -Hi. Brother Green having been godly of iml admin istration and fd imprudence, niid of some degree of moral dereliction in the matter of brother Mallit ami 1 wnntcd funds to repel "Mexican invasion' the nti'.iirs nt ihe Ccnt.-nnrv Choral, .Iw.nl.l !.., .... I pended from the exercise of all Ins iiiiiiisterinl funo- lion until the next session ot this conlerenee." Mr. Green gave notice of his intention lo appeal lo tho General Conference. Massachusetts hus (illi miles of raihvnVt New York upwards of 800, Pennsylvania 7-l", Maryland :i;t',, Virginia South Carolina 'Mi, North Cnromnl7, Georgia fio'i, Alabama U'Mi, Ohio U1I. Michigan W'io. Florida 101. The lending fads are on record, and known to the ur. vivorsnf the f-thnml I'.Hh Congresses. 1 shrink from no needful responsibility, but from the appearance o seeking notoriety. Iu the war of .-1J, Bt,Kid liable for military service in support of a war, the justice of which I advocated in the New York Legislature and ih Congress, having voluntei red before my election, under the act for n detnchmenlof 100,001) men, inconsequence of the attack on Ihe Chesnpeuke." Tiik PosTAor Tax. The press nf this Slate, nf all parties, universally condemns the lute Post (.Mice Law. We may ndd that Ihe pmpltt concur. The law is del nounced ns a " tax on intelligence,'' mil some of the Lnc-d'oco piper have already homh d Ihe standard of " repeal," denouncing Cave Johnson for an ass the while. And we mny again add Ihe people concur. mil wny need I'oikiies gnimble i The President tilted funds to repel " Mexieiili fnvnsion' ' t m..l doubtless supposed that no lux could so little ntlect mmscii ami m irieud as one on " im-i;i.iiiukn(:c,,' Springfirld Kcpublir. MinsiiirMAN Ron ins The New York Herald snya that instructions have in fact been issued to Cioniuo. dure Perry, directing him, iu the event of Midshipman It otre ra being hnuged as a spy, ns was threatened, in deliance of nil law, to ha ig La Vegn to (he yaul arm if one of his fngaUs, willuu full view ut lliu city of Vera Crux, From Hie Pittsburgh (Jaiette. Review ol the Tweuty-NintU Congress. NO. II. TAXATION THE TARIFF. We have not room to discuss the tan If policy which his been remodelled by the late Congress. We are pointed lo tho prosperity of the country. But in it more prosperous now than it was under the tori If of itutf And would ihe commercial, or tho manufacturing, or the shipping interests be prosperous stall, but lor the extraordinary famine and scarcity in Europe? Why, the English tuition, from the British treasury, are at this moment paying our ship owners for sending to Great Britain the grateful chanties of our people, and is this a time tn draw favorable conclusions of a levenue measure which was established to overthrow an act long established, long tried, and proved to bo good? Be it remembered, too, that il was during a foreign war that the lantf act of 18 'i was destroyed, and most wantonly so. It was not only parly against interest, but party agaiuat principle, hiiI the deed was done not only iu defiance of Mr. Polk's pledges of protection when a candidate, but under circumstances that showed a willingness to sicrilice people, country, and the public good, merely to sustain the doctrines of those hostile alike to the labor, Ihe geuiui, und Ihe permanent welfaro of the nation. Thistarilfol 18-ltj was just eight days old when the President and his Secretary of Treasury, sent the one a message, and the other a report to Congress declaring ihat coal and iron should he additionally taxed, with Bugar, tea and cotl'ee 1 Upon Iho two last arli. cles, no duty had been imposed for fifteen or sixteen years, and they have become from Ihe constancy of their use and the dependence of the poor upon them, among the necssaries of life. Mr. Polk himself as a candidate for oilice, had denounced the tax upon them as a Whig measure, and he himself, backed by the Legislature and party of his Slate, had denounced any such tax as uiieuuuJ and unjust. His own Secretary of the Treasury, as a Senator also, had preferred, proposed, and defended a tax upon gold and silver plate ; and yet bulb are found, in the first place, the destroyers of a revenue law yielding a large income ; and iu the second place advocating an increase of duty upon Ihe comforts and necessaries of life ! Was this tax upon iron, and coal, and sugar, a political intrigue to win back the lost State of Pennsylvania to the Administration, and to soothe Louisiana, complaining id' had faith ' or was it an act to make Ihe pour, according to ihe Democratic creed, pay an increase of price equal to the increase uf duty pro nosed upon tea and coffee, nnd sugar, and coal, and iron, and other articles used by Ihe poor ? II the reduction of duty increased the amount of rcv-L'tme, according to another free trade theory, how hap pen it again that the Executive and Mr. Walker usk- d Congress tor ail iticreajcol revenue by an enhance- meat of duly. But this is not the marked feature of the subject. The "2'.Hh Congress have actually reduced the duty on luxuries in tfie tariff of 18-fli, while they have proposed, iu the year 1817, a high duty on the necessaries of life. On brandii and loirits distilled from ituoi. the duty had been reduced sixty-two per rent. Under the Whig tarilf of h ' according to the importations of I8.r. Ihe revenue derived from these articles was one million six hundred uud twenty-thrce thousand uonara, nun me reduced duty on brandy nnd spirits is $l:W,0'.)t) ! And yet lea and coffee are lo be taxed to make up the deficiency of a reduced duty nn rum, gm, brandy, whiskey, and other foreign alcholic liquors. Temperance men, hat think you of this." On play ing cards the duty had been reduced even-cights, and put in the ;t0 per cent, schedule. The duty on Visiting card had aNo been reduced nearly two-thirds. Mr. Stewart of Pennsylvania, in a recent speech says of the act of l.!4li, the duties are reduced "on crown and cul glass, chandeliers, &c , used by the rich, Is) t-) ;)0 per cent.; on pimento, cloves, cassia, dates, Arc, from uM to down to 4t) per cent.; on ready-made clothing, from .7) in ID ; on silk hat and shoes, frmn ;7) tu III). The duties on all these luxuries, an J many others, consumed by the rich, are ihu reduced, in moM instances, more than one-half; and then the Sec n tary and President turn around and ask us to tax lea and cotl'ee. No, fir, let them restore and increase the duties on luxuries, and then, if they have not revenue enough let them talk about a duty on tea and coffee. Let them restore the three and a half millions of revenue they had lost by tho reduction of the du ties on cotton goods; the Iwo millions on iron sud its matiufaclures; the million and a half Ihey have lost on sugar; the million on woolens and the nullum and a half on sdk goods. Let them restore these protec tive uud revenue duties restore the nine and a half millions taken oil these five articles. SUBTIIKASL'RY LAW. This act is now nearly a year old. What good ha it done to the Government, Sinle or People ? 1 the public money safer than it was? Are six individoils, however respectable or responsible, Jiving in Boslun, .iew iork, rnuauejprnn, Charleston, SI. Louis, nnd iiew wrieans, capahleol keeping the pinilic money as nccureiy as iiMiuuiinns with stockholders and directors incorporated by the Stale Governments, responsible to Slate Government, and irivimr the most am nit? security for Ihe restoration ol every dollar placed on deposit f Without giving security, or convenience lo persons or parlies, or business of any sort, the Sub-treasury has really done a great deal of positive injury to the country. It has multiplied public olliners ui all sections of the country, and at the seal of Government, and thus greatly increased the power of Ihe Executive, by giving him a more complete and less responsible control over the purse strings of the nation. In itself the Subtreasiiry scheme ha all the germs of a grent Government hank largo deposits, large issues, and through the Treasury notes.sentout by million nnd million of dollars, a lane uaner t-ir dilation. The manufacture of oaner uiuncr. indeed. i one of the great branches of business earned on in the Treasury building. This scheme combines the purse with the sword in the one person of the President. It makes a distinction between the necessary currency of the people and the actual currency of the Government. It nn. barrassea the people tn their biisiiiCN n htions, by giving the government, having control of the mints and Ihe collections, a monopoly of Ihe specie. If the people Inve not felt the weight of the oppressive and destructive monopoly, it is because of the Urge im-portations of specie, which in the reatored prosperity of Europe, will return with nnother hirvest,nnd leave Ihe country choked, hy tightening Ihe cords of this strangling scheme of finance. Already ha it cost the Government dearly, and already ha tho Treasury Department, and the subordinate olVicers of the Treasury, devised every possible means which the wit of man could conceive, to get rid of the more stringent enactments of the law. In the immense payments in Mexico no attempt has been made to observe the law ; and yet one would suppose Ihat tho officers of the Government were not absolved from American laws, merely because they were temporarily absent, upon the business of the Government in Mexico. There have been Treasury notes, and Treasury drafts, and l reasury order, and Treasury checks, and Treasury certificates, and all sort of paper inventions, to evade the spirit and letter of the existing law. All these evasion are necessary to give even a practical opera-lion to the scheme; and yet, lo otlicera of Government, and to business men, these operations are attended with the greatest imssible inconvenience. The boxing, traveling, and counting of specie; the carting of specie from the hanks to the custom houses, and back again to and from the Subtreasiiry establish- m.-w, .o- imnsponniinu oi specie irom the Treasury Department lo Up Capitol, its shipment again from one section ot the country in mot !.. l'..,m York to New Orleans at great coat of freight attendance, and insurance, all phnw both ihe inllv ami pi. pense of the scl te itself, (ti its brief day it has proved itself, ( the very best, an experiment and a lailure. Willi the concealments of ,e Treasury, il isnotensyto learn Ihe exli ill of this cost, but" we oiiui hit a pamohlet ol individual oavments and con tracts incident lo ibis transportation of specie from point lo point. The banks d.d all this performed all ihe monetary business Ol (invcrmn.oit without 1 1 urge. Th-y disbursed our ncnuioni without reward of any kind; but nt the taut session of Congress it became necessary to create pension agent, with $ 1 ,000 per annum salaries, in every pirl of the country where il is necessary to iimvidc for lite navmeiit of pennon. This, however, is but an ilem of Ihe cost. We rend the following in Ihe civil and diptonialic bill : For salaries of aai'mtanl treasurers $'JI,h;.' ror auunionai salaries under the SuMreaa-il ry act For special examining agents under Sub treasury act For contingent expenses under Sublrensury act For a chief Sublrensury clerk for Mr. Bmick, N. Y For ten additional clerks, under Subtreasiiry act These nre but a drops of silver in the great ocean of expenditure, and every year these expenses will be increased, until the Sublreasury is metamorphosed into a complete Government bank with powers greater than the Bank nf France or the Bank of England. Ties is the design, and it becomes Ihe people to resist the attempt, by defeating tlms igoged in this enormous scheme for strengthening the Executive arm, wh.le at the same time alienating the Government itself from the common, and tried, and safe institutions of the country. o,000 10,000 2,1 i'H) ir.,7 A Grvat Ki'T At a recent meeting to establish a Juvenile Itrluge in Maiirhculer, the Archbishop of Dublin said Ihey could educate ti It jr children at Ihe same cust that they could keep one soldier. There is (his difference between happiness nnd wis dom. He lhal thinks himself (he happiest man is rrnuy so, mil lie tnnt (lungs lumselt the wisest is gen erully the greatest fool. The Lnke und Kiver Convention. We have had an opportunity of conversing with a gentleman who has recently been through tho entire route from the Atlantic, by the lakes to tins city. Ho has taken an active interest in the convention proposed to be held nl Chicago, on the 5th of July next, at which representatives from every part of tho valley of the Mississippi, and the lake coast, are expected to be present. His correspondence with sections he has not visited, has been even more extensive; and he is every wny well prepared to give correct information of what may be expected on this occasion. From what we learn Irom him, as well as what wo gather from our exchange papers, we nre confident, that this will bo one of the largest conventions of del. egales ever held in thu west, and will combine, in tho person of the delegates attending, a greater amount of talent and distinguished statesmen than have ever-been assembled on any similar occasion. If the ninny distinguished porsons from whom, it is staled, that as-surnuoe have been obtained that they will attend, ns delegates, from their respective localities, the re prerogatives of States or districts, we may, without in-vidioiisnes, mention tho following: Air. Webster. and other from Massachusetts; Silas Wright, Gov Young, ftlr. rilmore, and many others Irom New York ; Gov. Cass, nnd a large delegation from Michi gan; Mr. Corwm, and several other distinguished men, from Ohio. A ti umber of delegation, embrncing somo of the best talent of Indiana and Illinois, have been reported. There is a prospect also, that Mr Clay, from Kentucky, may bo there. Means, wo lenrn, have been token, at least to induce him to attend, and this presents an opportunity for him to do hisfarorite Went a signal benefit it is expected that he will be there. There will also be there delegate! from nearly all the New England States, many of the Middle Stales, and most if nut all, the Western Slates and Territories. Whether the South will be represented or not, we are not informed. Enough is, however, known to assure us that it will be nn assemblage of more than ordinary interest that it will bring together some of the greatest statesmen of the day, and Ine highest talent of the country. It will form an epoch iu the history of the West, and from its action, composed, as it will be, of men of both political parties, we entertain the moat flattering hopes. us iiiiiuenee, we trust, will do tell, not only in tho community generally, but iu the administration of our national nll'airs. Such n combination of talent and practical wisdom an will be there assembled cannot fail to disseminate it influences into every quarter of the land, and every department of the government In this great work, no portion of Ihe country is more directly or deeply interested than this city. We are directly interested in the improvement of the navigation ol our rivers and the protection nf our harbor. It requires no comment at tins day, to convince any one of this necessity. We are al-o interested ill the improvement of the navigation, and the construction of safe harbors on tho lakes. Tim commerce of tho lakes, and the commerce of the Mississippi, are every year becoming more and more closely identified ; and Ihe roads and canal which are opened, or soon will tie, are mnkiug this connection mure complete. For fliese reasons, St. Louis should send to ttiis conven tion, a large and respectable delegation, comprised of ner nmesi, most influential, and talculcd citizens ; men who cun and will represent truly and fairly, the inju ries wit ch the commerce of the Mississippi nnd lis principal tributaries, sustain from the ohstruclijns to lis navigation, and the claims winch we have upon the aid of tliu National Government in this, and the im provement uf our hnrbor. An early selection of delegates, is every wny desirable, if not absolutely necessary, to spcure a proper representation of our ne cessities and claims iu thu convention. Si Louis lit. publican. White Kervifudein MiiMtachusetts. At the present time, when public atlenlion is so earnestly directed tu the subject of slavery, every iuci or circumstance connected Willi its introduction or abolition in any of the New England States is of inieresi. The inhabitants of the colony of Massachusetts Hay, besides their Negro slaves, had natives of Ire-laud, Scotland and England in subjection lo them, whose lime, for a period of years, longer or shorter, was sold to pay the exienes of their transportation. After the battle nf Dunbar, Cromwell's "crowning mercy," and again, alter Ihe defeat of the followers of Charles Stuart at Worcester, the "great crowning mercy," Parliament, the tool of the army, ordered the prisoners, whose rank was too low to entitle them to Ihe honor of being beheaded, to be transported to the plantations. They were sold to pay for the passage money ; that is, the masters or owners of ships si (rest ports took Ihem on board, conditioned to deliver them on shore in one of the pUniutions. Cromwell glndly executed the execrable policy, and sent the major part of these victims of civil "war lo the West Indies, where, no doubt most perished by the climate. Others, whose happier chance was to be taken by Ihe ship John and Harsh, Capt. John Greene, were brought to the portof Charlestown, consigned to John Kemble, to he disposed of by hifU, ior inn account m jonn if ecr and Hubert llich. J he names of two bundled and seventy of Ihe persons shipped on board tho John and Sarah, while wiih tho owner's instructions, are recorded in Suffolk county records for the year UmI Many of these names are ine same, o ttoth Christian and surnames, as those of our fellow citizens of the present day. The common names of Ross, Gordon, Robinson, Simson, Boyd, Smith, Anderson, Jackson, Hamilton, Stewart, Wilson, Hunt, Patterson, Hudson, Moore, Russell, Howe, Miller, Kallender, Perry, Jones, Grant, Morton, and Scott, together with numerous others, appear. N'-srly the whole number have Scripture names. Forty-live, or one-sixth part of the whole, bear the names of John; twenty-six rejoice in the name of Daniel; twenty-three are called James, nod fourteen David. Of those designated by Hebrew names. eighteen are called " Patrick," which is nearly as good as a Scripture title, for il is the name of a Saint. Ihe Key. John Cotton, the thrn venerable pastor of Ihe First Church in Boston, wrote the " Loan GriKitAl. Crohwci.!.," in the year lli.il, as follows : " The Sent whom (tod delivered into your hands at Duubarrc, and whereof sundry were sent hither, we have been desirous (as we could) to make their yoke easy. Such as were sick of the scurvy or other diseases have not wanted phvsickand chyrtigery. They have not ocen sold for slaves lo perpetual servitude, hut for ti or 7 or d years, as we d our own ; ami he that bought the most of them (I heart-) buildelli houses lot them, fur every 4 an house, layrlh some acres of ground thereto, which he gtveth them as their own, requiring; a days in the week to worke for hun (by lurncs) and 4 dys for themselves, and pro in-iseth, as sonnc as Ihey can repay him the money he layeth out for them, he will sel them at liberty.' In loW Ihe average pneo of a white servant, where live years' service was due, was about 10, while a Negro was worth '.0 or JCi'i. Gov. Braditreet, in IGO, says, about one hundred or ono hundred and twenty of these persona were living in servitude, and shout htlfas many Irish. Ductless there are many individuals, upon whom fortune has smiled, in this country, and whose children assume a palncian haughtness on account of Iheir family ponscssious, would arrive at the cargo of Ihe John and Sarah, were they In Irace back tlo-.r .n. eestry, and would there find ihe order for Iheir fathers' market value, lo be invested in " provisions, and h other thing as are, iu New England, lit for the West indies ; and m scan-lung for their lamily cat ol arms, would sscerlain the fact, that their oroifenilors had no coals to their arms, Won Conner. The Charleston Mercury contains a report of an port a nt ease recently decided in South Carolina, from whih wo gather Ihe following fsels: The Charleston Bank, it appears, loaned a customer sVto.OtHI. and nt. reived iu pledge Hl.iek nf the Itailrond and Bank l oinpany to the amount ol Ml shares, as collateral I'furity. 1 he note was not nnul at maturity : and at the request of the debtor tune was given Iroin Mh December, ;W, to January 4, 8 ; when, after full notice, the sloek was sold ui open market by a broker, and bid otfnt the full market price, by the President of the bank, who caused Ihe amount of sales to be carried to the credit f Hie dcbi. The slock was bid oft at about ftl.'i per shan : some mouths alter it depreciated, and was sold al a considerable profit. In .lovemoer, ll.., a lull was tiled lo compel the Bank to give credit for their re-iale, on Ihe ground that, being Trustee to sell, Ihey could not buy themselves, snd, as Trustees, must account for all their profits to ttieir "rrrtMi yur trust," and so Chancellor Job Johnson, in an elaborate decree, decided. An appeal was taken hy the Bank to the appeal Court of Equity, and was argued at Us Inte selling, hy II. F Hunt and C. G. Memminger, Eq re , fur appellant, and Mr. Bailey, Attorney General, and Mr. Hayne, for Ihe appellee. The appeal Court reversed the decree, and dismissed ihe lull, Uius stlirming ihe validity of the sale, Many large cases were awaiting tins decision, and thousands would have been put into litigation if the decree had been sustained. The position maintained by Ihe Bank, and sustained by Ihe ApH'nl Court, were thew: Grounds nf .Ippeal. 1st. Because, alter the default, there was in fad no fiduciary relslions between Ihe bank and its borrower, in Ihe just sense of Hit terms. There was no obligation to serve, and no compensation for service. The stock was actually sold lo the bank, and transferred al the inception of the debt, and after the default was the property uf Ihe bank, wlto wen only bound to give credit for il al tin tune payment was peremptorily demanded, winch they did. itd. Because the usage of banks is obligatory on it customers, suthormng, m case a redemption it not effected,- sale by a public broker, as a common agent ; nnd the creditor, having an interest, is aulhonted lo proh ct Ins interest, by bidding ; otherwise, in ease of insolvency of the debtors, Ihey could not seeure themselves by giving the highest hid at auction. A Mis Lamb, of Indians, eloped recently with a Mr. Shephetd. Wo supposu lie look her " hy hook or bv ttook" Madriver Itnilrottd. We oussed from tho Lak tn tlm nMiint tupinmii. of this road, during our late absence, and found tho improvement, nnd the affairs of tho company, in much better condition than wo anticipated. Beyond Tifliu. the comt.sn. i. -.1--;. tl. n.j and putting it in first rate traveling order. This side of Tifliu, tho track is excellent, and the train made "express " time. Leaving Sandusky city about six o'clock, we were at Richland, the present terminus, ! iiinu nir n iaie o inner, uisiance ninety-two miles. When tho repairs on the upper part of ihe track aro completed, and the work extended lo Urbane, we are satisfied Unit the distance, lao miles, will be made in seven hurs. Wo shall even then, without waiting to close up thu gap at this point, make the passage from the Lake to the river by daylight. While at Sandusky City, we visited the ehops ol the company, nnd found a large number of men engaged in car building and other work required by the business of the road. The shops had just turned out a handsome car, so arranged es to carry the baggage, uiim upon an exigency, accomodate a number olpassengers. A great part of the nresent linn nas ihrnnrrh . broad and extensive forest; and yet the company Ims more business than iu facilities enable it to transact. As this unopened country becomes settled and cultivated, the business of the Mad will be i hundred fold, and ils stock will become, the most valuable in Ihe Union. The company is looking forwnrd to an extension of business, and funking requisite preparations for it, They have now five locomotives busily engaged, and are daily looking for two new and powerful engines from Patterson. N. J. Thev have one hundred freight cars in use, which number will bo increased to one hundred and seventy-five by Ihe first of September. The daily receipts of tho company are about fjjt.t.i0, which will be increased tofcoOO when Ihe road is linish-d to Uellefontaine. Their receipts of the months of Fehrunry, March, April, and half uf May, show an increase of more than .40.000 over the corresponding period in 18.(J, 1 ho road is now used to Richland, ninety-two miles. It is almost completed to Uellefontaine. ten miles for. thpr; and it will in a month be extended to Wmt Liberty, twenty-four miles north of SDrinirfinld. Be tween Bellef'oitlBiue and West Liberty, tho road cros-bcs a small prairie, which is evidently a lake, over tho surface of which a heavy sod has grown. The road was graded and the contractors were about to deliver it as finished, when suddenly it disappeared, and twelve feet water was found in its place. Thirty years ngo mo grass was cut on this prnirtc and hauled etf on a heavy wagon. It is supposed that there is a subterranean communication between it and tho neighboring lakes. The road will probably have to be carried urouud the prairie. At Uellefontaine and West Liberty, private enterprise is anxiously awaiting the incoming of the road. Handsome and roomy warehouses are already erected, and doubtless will soon be crammed with the products of that fertile region of the State. Springfield A Picture of War, A correspondent of the Philadelphia North Ameri can, alW describing the battle field of Cerro Gordo, says: 1 never denre to visit another such a field after battle. When the fiirht is romiiir men can look um.ii the dead and shrink not from his bloody features; but but to walk cojdly over hundreds of human bodies, blackened and bloated by the sun, stretched around among broken muskets and dismounted cannon tho teed anil the rider ottering inviting banquets to tho foul birds thai here battened upon Ihem on every hand, sickens the senses and the soul; strips even victory ol'its gaudy plumage and stamps the w hole with an unspeakable horor. Passing down the ravine where the National Guards had three limes attempted to dislodge ihe mounted Riflemen who, supported by the howitzer battery, lilternlly rained death among iiiuir ranks, i was obliged lo turn back and retrace my step. The gorge was choked no with the bndi.-a nf rh flower of the Mexican Army. The wolf dog and the buz urd howled and screamed as I rode by, and the tench was too sickening to endure. Passing on, we came to the hospital where the badly wounded still lay the Mexicans first and next the Americans. 1 could not but notice the difference between them. The wounded Mexicans groaned piti. fully, while not moan was to be heard from our people. The Mexicans cannot endure fire and pain hke the Americans. Quick and imoetuous. thev will for a moment face danger and death like heroes; but the long ted ous hours of sickness or pain, or a lasting battle in which men aro required to overcome extraordinary artificial and natural obstacles, aro too mucn ior them l hey have all the tolnxe ot burning shaving, not the lasting lire of Ihe charred coal. For many miles we passed along a ditch, dug from Kncera to (he pass of Cerro Gordo, which furnishes us excellent water. All along the road were the bodies of .Mexican lancers and their horses, cut down by Col. Harney's dragoon, when the so fire eaters chased Santa Anna and his retreating troop beyond Jala pa. Almost rvery man's skull woe literally split npen with Ihe sabres of our horsemen, and they luy stretched upon the ground in ghastly groups. Weekly Nntlonal Intelligencer. This patter is about to be enlarged to exnctlv twice its present sue, and will then consist of eight folio pages, instead of four, a now and heretofore. Una enlargement will begin with the first number issued after the end uf the month of June. I he subscription lo the paper per year will be, after the first day of July ensuing, Three Dollars per annum ; bemg an advance, as will be perceived, less by one- half than the increase of cost of publication caused by the enlargement. For tho long sessions of Congress Cavemirinff eieht months) the price will be Two Dollar ; for tho short sessions One Dtdlar per copy. a reouctton oi i per cent, (or one -filth or the full charge) will be made lo any one who shall order and pay lor, at one time, lire copies of the Wrekiv panvr : and a like reduction of 'io p-r cent, (or one-fourth of the full charge) to any one who will order and pay for at any one time un or more copies. no mr counts Dcing kept lor this paper, it will not hit forwarded lo any one unless paid for in advance, nor sent any lunger than the time for which it is so paid lor. The Dully Nnlionnl Intelligencer Will continue to be published, aa usual at Ten Dollars per year, with this addition to its value to subscribers ; that a double sheet (eight pages of the present site in-stend of four) will ha thrown off whenever the press nf Public Documents, Proceedings and Debates in Congress, or of Advertisements, shall require it. The Thrlce-a-Wcck Nnlionnl Intelligencer Will also continue to be published, as heretofore, with this addition also to its value: Ihatadouhlo sheet will be thrown oil', probably aa often as once a week during; the Session of Congress, and at other times occasionally, whenever the press of matter shall, at elated in regard to the Daily paper, justify the Publishers in incurring that additional expense. Saniiusrv Ci.ahios Knend Cinr.be 11 announce that his paper of the present week closes a quarter of a century since he commenced the publication of the Clarion. On looking over his original subscription list, he find the names ot but & persons on it, who are aubacrttHrs at Ihe present lime, Ihe most of whom have taken the paper for yeara. Mr. C. says, Of .V.'l name on our book Ihe first year, we have heard of Ihe death of ll'J, and of about aa many moro we havo no knowledge. A large, portion of them have probably passed from this life. Wo suppose one tlitrd of the whole number are dead." Such are Ihe changes of a quarter of a century Mr. Campbell has been constantly connected with Ihe Clarion Own ils com mencement, and there la but one editor in Ohio we believe, Mr. Saxtnn, of Ihe Ohio Repository, w ho has been 0r ao long a period engaged, without change, m the same pursuit. We well recoiled the anxiety to see the first number of the CNnuii fell by the log cabin people sparse ly srauervii siong uic iaae snore west o L levclntid. Ihe estabhshineiil o a newspaper in this wilderness section was (hen considered an event of n small im portance, and tho experiment a doubtful ono at tho best. The principal mails were carried hut once a week, and the facilities for Ihe rirciilatinn of newspa pers among subscribers were poor indeed. Mr. t 'amp-bell located his press at Sandusky, with but small actual encouragement, but he correctly foresaw what improvement tune, industry and entrrprine would ef-led in a country where nature had so generously don her pari, and we rejoice that his enterprise has hern successful, and is rewarded with a substantial compe tence, iho i inrion la lo be enlarged and adorned with a new dtesa. The proposition to issue a daily ia suspended for the present t hr. Iterld. Ht.AVKNV t Il I milt tVlt IM in Txnl k( r.,.1 1 : the words of Ihe Wilmot proviso inloour conaiiiuiniu, witlt such an addition an will pnmihil slavery i 1st If nut wi!l pmhiiui any legislation which acknowledges its existence in any other Slate. Every human being !....(. ll... Illin.ua ,..! all. ml. I Km f provided by Ihe Tutted Slates law. On our own noun d to service should not appear. If other States will have slaves, it is a quasi endorsement for u to make laws to facilitate Iho capture of fugitives. ( hi- ruga itrmoerai. n.iitmniis to . . a a i. t hp rtmyrain iifi'in hi Canada received notice hy the last steamer thai 10,. tilti immigrants were un their way to Quebec, from the United Kingdom. We regret lo learn Hint many of the Farmers in this vicinity have hi I their Corn, Oats, and Flax, and noiue other riops, by the ravages of the Cut-W onus, flu is the lift visitation of this kind here for many years. Pioun UrpvrUr